Verbatim: Follow the Chicken | Op-Docs

In this dramatization of transcripts from a legal deposition, lawyers grapple with a plaintiff’s bizarre testimony about the destruction of his chicken’s pasture.

This is a dramatization of a deposition given by a chicken farmer in the destruction of his chicken pasture. The chicken farmer goes off on a rant that everyone has to see.

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Verbatim: Follow the Chicken | Op-Docs | The New York Times

[unclecreepy]

Timber lawyer: Your honor, he signed a contract.

Chicken lawyer: Your honor, my client is clearly mentally handicapped and unable to enter into a binding contract.

[drharmonica]

The gentleman who played the chicken farmer is a fantastic actor. A big BRAVO to his performance.

[themore-you-know]

"Drink the Kool-Aid" -> Join someone else's insanity.
"Follow the chicken" -> To go on your own insane path.

[tiffles]

_"A man who knows Chicken as well as I do, has a home on any culture of this world ..."_


He has a legitimate point there ...

[takoma]

im scared. He started making sense to me.

[InvictusByz]

His last point is pretty valid though. Every society has a place for somewhat unhinged chicken farmers.

[xjdfghashzkj]

I'm just glad that the sentence "Okay, what does a chicken have to do with God?" was seriously uttered by a lawyer at a deposition.

[Besat]

Sounds like they could use an expert in birdlaw.

[Lines]

01:02 He doesn't report his poultry farm income is what he's saying.

[MilA-ehgf]

I thought I struggled and needed subtitles because English is not my first language, then I saw the comments and realised that it's not me it's him...
Thanks commenters you saved my self-esteem.

[dorkmax]

That $3, 200 was what was known as "please just go away" money

[Michael_Lederman]

Okay how is this not a weekly tv show? It's more entertaining that most of what gets on TV and educational too.

[AndroidOO]

He goes into it completely unprompted. This is air into gold.

[DamagedSoulonevoiceinbillion]

The next time I eat chicken I think I am going to cry . . . . Thank you dear chicken for keeping the world together and making this planet a better place. . . .

[caseybedwell-coll]

in response to a yes or no question, this man stated that:

• he knows osama bin laden
• he nearly died from every animal in the world
• god is a chicken

[Bane_Diesel]

Never ask a question you don't know the answer "what does the chicken have to do with god?"

[bejoysen]

This actually makes sense lol. He's like those GOT characters who can warg into ravens, except he can inhabit the bodies of chickens. He's the three-eyed chicken and knows past, future, and present everywhere by simple virtue of the chicken's importance to humanity.

[Andrea-heio]

Jesus Christ. That lawyer was not paid enough for that

[mattneff]

"Would you be interested to know the chicken you just pointed to is not the defendant?"

[ge]

I love the confused look on the stenographer's face.