{"id":244370,"date":"2010-01-28T19:51:32","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T00:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a81fdd48970b"},"modified":"2010-01-28T20:41:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T01:41:55","slug":"only-in-new-york-officials-investigate-chicken-kissing-incident-on-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/244370","title":{"rendered":"Only in New York: Officials investigate chicken-kissing incident on subway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<object height=\"385\" width=\"480\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/notETvv2ExM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/notETvv2ExM&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 New York City&#8217;s transit agency is investigating a video posted online that shows a man kissing and snuggling a live chicken aboard a subway.<\/p>\n<p>The subway rider who took the video said Thursday that it was one of those New York moments she felt compelled to record.<\/p>\n<p>Kylie Kaiser, a 27-year-old architect from Brooklyn, and two friends boarded the uptown No. 6 train at the 33rd Street station at around 7 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He was on his back, rolling from side to side, kissing, hugging and lifting the chicken up in the air,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said the man was oblivious to everything around him and didn&#8217;t respond to onlookers. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was definitely an only-in-New-York situation,&quot; said Kaiser, who moved to the city about three years ago from Murfreesboro, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser said the man looked like he was homeless because he had a shopping cart next to him full of cans and was wearing a shirt with an MTA patch that &quot;looked like he had found it somewhere.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>NYC Transit spokesman Charles Seaton said no passengers reported the incident. He said only service animals and those in containers are permitted in the subway system.<\/p>\n<p>Kaiser took the video and photos with her BlackBerry and <a href=\"http:\/\/2pznappod.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/that-just-happened.html\">posted them on her blog<\/a>. The post was <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2010\/01\/27\/video_chicken_on_the_6_train_no_big.php\">picked up by Gothamist<\/a>, a local blog network, and others.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I knew it would be a story people would want to hear,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 New York City&#8217;s transit agency is investigating a video posted online that shows a man kissing and snuggling a live chicken aboard a subway. The subway rider who took the video said Thursday that it was one of those New York moments she felt compelled to record. Kylie Kaiser, a 27-year-old architect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}