A Maryland man has been arrested after being suspected of killing 70,000 chickens. Officials say the man was in a drunken stupor when he wandered into a chicken house and mistakenly turned off the power to three chicken houses. Police found the 21-year-old passed out on the owners property in nothing but boxer shorts and a t-Shirt. Police say the drunken man was lying in a pool of his own urine and in an intoxicated state when they found him. The owner loss about $22,000 worth of chickens. The man was arrested and booked into jail on charges of second-degree burglary, trespass and malicious destruction of property
Cesar Colon
A man wandering around a Delmar, Md., poultry farm in a drunken stupor turned off the power to three chicken houses, causing the deaths of nearly 70,000 chickens, sheriff’s officials said.
The property owner who made the grisly discovery found the man, identified as Joshua D. Shelton, 21, of Delmar, Md., passed out on the floor of the power control shed, wearing only a T-shirt and boxer shorts. “This subject was also lying in a pool of his own urine. A strong odor of alcohol was also coming from the subject,†Wicomico County sheriff’s Lt. Tim Robinson said in a press release.
The investigating deputy awakened the man.
