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| Rockingham News |
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| A wild rooster chase |
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| NEWTON - An unlikely culprit carried out the town?s first jailbreak. |
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| On Nov. 2, police responded to a call from a resident on Heath Street about an unwanted guest in their backyard: Ricky, a large, white rooster. |
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| Officer Michael Jewett located the rooster and managed to get Ricky into a large cardboard box with air holes, which was sealed and brought back to the Newton Police Station. |
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| After failing to locate Ricky?s rightful owner, the police called Animal Control Officer Kimberly Mears, who said she had a coop that could hold Ricky until she could pick him up later that day. |
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| Ricky was fairly well behaved, according to police officials, until Officer Steven Sforza took control. |
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| Sforza placed the box that held Ricky on the back steps of the station to avoid causing a disruption in the station and so Mears could put him into her car without having to come into the station. |
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But once he was placed outside, Ricky became upset. |
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| "He started cock-a-doodling pretty loudly, you could hear it in the station," said Sforza. "I don't think he liked me very much." |
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| Soon after he was placed outside, Ricky pecked his way free of his cell. |
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| Sforza said he went outside to find a free-running Ricky cock-a-doodling and causing quite a ruckus. |
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| Mears and Sforza joined forces to try and recapture Ricky as Mears grabbed her large net and Sforza got a new box. |
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| "I think he was playing with us at this point,"; said Sforza. "I was calling him over and he would walk forward a little bit, then run away, then he'd do it again." |
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| Ricky managed to elude Mears and Sforza, ran between Sforza?s legs and disappeared out into the hills. |
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| Mears deployed her four sons to the forest behind the station in an unsuccessful attempt to find Ricky. |
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| Ricky stayed in the hills behind the station cock-a-doodling for the rest of the day. |
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| The current whereabouts of Ricky the rooster are unknown. |
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