A feud between two Florida neighbors, has gone viral over a dead rooster. The chicken killer’s excuse for the slaughter, ‘he was acting in self-defense’, is what made the video go so viral.
James Nix, 54, of Jacksonville, spent 30 hours in jail following his arrest in the incident last month that left his neighbor’s rooster dead, but he maintains he only protecting himself.
“I’m defending myself, you know,” Nix told the station. “I was fearing for my safety, and the chicken died.”
Nix said he grabbed a nearby stick and “accidentally” hit the rooster owned by neighbor Jason Defelice in the head, killing the man’s beloved pet.
“Call it a lucky shot, whatever,” Nix told the station.
Defelice, who lives across the street, later came home and found his rooster dead after the animal didn’t greet him as usual.
“Then, I went in Nix’s yard and yelled at him, and he finally came out and said he killed him,” Defelice recalled.
Defelice called the sheriff’s office and Nix was later arrested on charges of aggravated animal cruelty.
Four children told Defelice that Nix beat the animal with a steel pole. Witnesses said they never previously saw the rooster attack anyone.
Nix went on to say, “I couldn’t believe I was arrested when how many chickens get killed and served up in restaurants every day.”
“Next thing you know, he calls the chicken police on me,” Nix said. “Chickens die every day people at Churches, Popeyes and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Really.”
Nix was checking his mail when the rooster allegedly attacked. He didn’t know how else to react aside from leaving the scene last month, he admitted.
“I didn’t know whether to give it a 21-gun salute,” Nix said. “CPR, mouth-to-mouth, you know? Or call the chicken ambulance?!”
It was a rooster. They can be mean. I remember well being attacked by one many yrs ago. Cut gashes in my head. But ….”charged with a felony??” He could have killed a child and gotten by with it with only a smack of the hand in many court rooms today… Sickening when they value a hateful rooster more than human live
….but he didn’t kill a child. He killed a rooster. There is no mention of human death in this report. It is a report about a neighbor killing his neighbor’s rooster with an object. Do you want this neighbor?
Yeah a felony is a little harsh, I could see him have to replace his rooster.
….but he didn’t kill a child. He killed a rooster. There is no mention of human death in this report. It is a report about a neighbor killing his neighbor’s rooster with an object. Do you want this neighbor?
Does he go to check his mail with a steel pole in his hand?