Florida Man Speaks Out After Spending One Month In Jail For Killing Neighbor’s Rooster

A Florida man is speaking out after spending one month in the slammer for killing his neighbor’s rooster. He claimed the rooster attacked him and he was wrongly incarcerated. 

James Nix Jr. was taken into custody for animal cruelty after he was charged at by chicken. “I didn’t know to give it a 21 gun salute!” said Nix. “CPR? Mouth-to-mouth? Do you know? Or call the chicken ambulance?”

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Big Roo was the neighbor, Jason DeFelice’s pet rooster, “So I’m defending myself!” said Nix. “You know, I was fearing for my safety and the chicken died.” Nix also cited that the rooster would frequently attack people. “I have not heard that,” said DeFelice. “Because I know the neighbor here, I know him, like we were friends. He never said anything to me about it.”

Nix recalled a time when he told his neighbor that it attacked his father. “I did tell him after the chicken hit my dad, I said ‘Hey man, the chicken attacked my dad,’” said Nix. “[ He said] ‘Oh well, it’s just a chicken. What’s he gonna do?’ You know? Well OK, look.” Nix said the rooster pursued and attacked him. “Its neck flares up and he’s doing his thing and he’s trying to jump up at me,” Nix remembered the incident.

Nox attempted to just knock the chicken away from him, but looks like he hit the then chicken a little too hard. “You know, call it a lucky shot whatever,” he said. When DeFelice came home, he saw his rooster, dead in a ditch. That was when he called the local authorities.

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“I called JSO, [they] didn’t do anything and a couple of days later I realized I could call animal control,” said DeFelice.

Florida Man was arrested for felony animal abuse after killing his neighbor’s pet rooster with a stick. He claims it was in self-defense: “He called the chicken police on me! Chickens are dying every day at Churches, Popeyes and KFC!” pic.twitter.com/3GVKvhGDOc

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In late June, Nix went to jail for animal cruelty.“Next thing you know, he calls the chicken police on me,” said Nix. “Chickens die every day — people at Churches, Popeyes, Kentucky Fried Chicken. Really?”