Quoting Joe Bauman <bau@desnews.com>:
That reminds me of an incident when I was a young...
Had a similar experience myself. I was travelling through the South and found myself on a dirt road somewhere in Kentucky. Traveling down this road passing farm house after farm house, I came to a place where the road forked and naturally I took the right fork, and immediately in doing so this chicken appeared from nowhere running beside my car. I thought "Oh no you don't" and shifted the car into high gear. Well this chicken was no slouch and shifted into high gear himself and then he did something totally unexpected. He accelerated ahead of my car and crossed the road directly in front of me. I swerved to miss the chicken and rolled the car into a farmers field. Hearing the comotion, the farmer/preacher came out of the house and ran to my car and asked me if I were all right just as I was dusting myself off, and I told him I was fine, but then asked him if he seen that chicken. He said "Yes, yes I did". I told him that I couldn't be certain, but that chicken appeared to have 3 legs. The preacher said, "Yes, we grow them like that down here". I asked him why and he went on to tell me that the folks around these parts like extra drumsticks with their chicken dinners. I said "that's pretty cool, how do they taste?" to which he replied, "I don't know, we can't catch them..." ;)