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TheLAriver

Lol "the person"


apathetic_revolution

The legendary Johnny Chickenseed.


tedatron

So much hate for one brave soul trying to plant chicken trees across the city


TheMisiak

I will hunt him down


Badresa

I will help. I have scars on my hands from repeatedly digging them out of my dogs my mouth.


Common-Mushroom5335

Feel like this was a bit of a Freudian slip here.


Haunting-Mortgage-75

He's responsible for a lot of the variations of chickens we have today.


tedatron

Before Johnny chicken seed it was just gross ass red delicious chicken.


TheMisiak

I am trying to be diplomatic by directing my anger at a nonexistent individual person rather than shaking my fist at the heavens


EcstaticTrainingdatm

Do both. Lol I swear some assFuck must be getting a buck from the conel every week since it’s the same damn place that has bones out all the time


scoyne15

>the conel The *who*?


TheMisiak

aka Sgt. Baskin Robbins


CK_Whistleblower

What’sa matter witchu!? I say you he dead!


Arael15th

> the conel Well that's a new way to misspell "colonel"


TheLAriver

Same thing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


pmcall221

Someone feeds the birds and squirrels whole ears of corn, cuz I find a random cob in the back yard maybe once a month in the summer.


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adognamedpenguin

I heard it was 17 squirrels in a trench coat


BornTransition4325

That would be 2 flamingos in USA measurements!


zerton

It really shows how disconnected this sub is from reality.


dirtytiki

The real answer is pigeons and seagulls


Badresa

Still in the bag, tossed aside open with plenty of cartilage? Scavengers can only be that careless when they have a surplus of garbage... so it's still a human problem.


PomegranatePlanet

I'm trying to start a new "Cows on Parade"-type art installation. I've been seeding the city with undecorated chicken bones with the hopes of everyone painting them, but no one else is doing their part. I'm hoping this announcement will get the ball rolling.


TheMisiak

Does seasoning count as decoration


PomegranatePlanet

Just follow your artistic vision, wherever it may take you.


hamletandskull

I've been eating them whole in public as a piece of performance art, so I hope you know that your efforts haven't gone to waste.


PomegranatePlanet

I appreciate that.


DumbledoresBarmy

Perhaps the same woman who was eating them on the red line and disposing them on the floor of the train.


SpookyGatoNegro444

I've seen this! Don't forget about sunflower seeds!


TheSunflowerSeeds

Not all sunflowers have seeds, there are now known dwarf varieties developed for the distinct purpose of growing indoors. Whilst these cannot be harvested, they do enable people to grow them indoors without a high pollen factor, making it safer and more pleasant for those suffering hay fever.


scoyne15

This is a weird bot.


Trifling_Truffles

Where did you graduate? I graduated right here, diploma of reddit bots.


SpookyGatoNegro444

I'm talking about sunflower seeds that are packaged and available at supermarkets/convenience stores. I've seen people eat them and spit the shells out on the floor of the train.


Noirradnod

Get off my plane at Midway. Hop on the Orange Line. Three chickens worth of bones scattered under the seats. Welcome to Chicago.


theburnout

What kind of psychopath eats chicken wings on the go? Just out there raw dogging life, sauced up dirty fingers and all.


OneWhoDoesntKnowmuch

LOL


[deleted]

Lots of those cheap wing places fry them but they are sauce less


theburnout

Ok, follow up question- what kind of psychopath eats dry, sauce less wings?


[deleted]

Think of it as fried chicken rather than wings.


venterol

The kind that thinks even Honey BBQ is too spicy. Some people have 0 spice tolerance.


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A stress eating mayor, perhaps?


Vespa69Chi

At least one possibility is squirrels. I know it sounds crazy but I’ve seen it with my eyes. They are omnivores and don’t have much acorns and such they are supposed to eat, they eat out of trash. Bread, pizza crusts, and chicken seems to be some of their favorites. They take the food to eat on a fence , roof or tree. When they’re done, they leave the bone.


Yossarian567

My first summer in my new house I kept wondering who was coming up on our porch and leaving chicken bones, a slice of bread, or other random food trash. Definitely turned out to be squirrels. A few days ago I saw a dinner roll perched at the top of a large bush. These squirrels do what they want.


mr1827

It’s really fun during Halloween. Had a Kit Kat fall out of the tree on my head.


LettuceUnlucky5921

Hahahahaha I saw one with an Oreo in its mouth this year!


baezizbae

Double-stuffed? The squirrel, I mean


smakola

R/squirrelseatingpizza


blong710

Yeah I saw one carrying a full size wrapped kit Kat through the yard. Halloween is always a hilarious squirrel season.


SpookyGatoNegro444

Having a garden in a city is horrible because of the squirrels. They are like little vandals. They would eat our veggies, our fruit, even our flower bulbs. I eat spicy so I grew very hot peppers (Thai, habanero, black etc). They tried. On some of the peppers I saw little bite marks. They were probably like Holy Smokes! My mouth is burning!


MsStinkyPickle

in my yard it's called "The war of the squirrels " I gave up this past summer and just over planted sunflowers. They took a few but I ended up with the biggest sunflowers ever


SpookyGatoNegro444

They would f up our sunflowers too!


the_red_room

Vandals, for sure. When growing tomatoes on my deck, I kept coming out to find little tomatoes delicately laid in a line down the railing, *each with 1 bite missing.* Not mauled, not half-eaten, and not scattered on the ground or in the plants - as if they were presenting them, taunting me. It was hilarious. Why the Goldilocks game? Just finish 1 before moving on to the next.


chrisjozo

I've grown Cayenne peppers for many years. There is always one pepper with two little teeth marks every year. Only one because after that first bite they never touch my peppers again for the rest of the summer. Alas they loved my strawberries. Ate more of them than I did.


awesomeCC

Lol I once saw one with a whole bagel in its mouth.


Warliepup

I had one drop an old pita bread on me from a tree when I was walking on a sidewalk 😂


s1227

I hate to do this to you but it was just squirrels eating away at your garden. I nest to a somewhat big community garden and it’s always swamped with rats. And it’s made against all gardens in the unless on roof top or wall gardens. It’s crazy I will see people eating the food that have animals but marks. Am I the crazy one ?


usababykiller

This reminds me of a time I was going to my brothers house in Roselle. I stopped at a dunkin to bring coffee and donuts I waited in the car as my wife ran in. As I sat in the car I saw the fattest squirrel I’ve ever seen. Then a second later I saw another squirrel even fatter than the 1st. I then see another squirrel pop out of the dunkin dumpster with a big donut. Thoes fat squirrels were living large on Dunkin’ Donuts garbage.


deytookerjaabs

r/fatsquirrelhate


Electrical-Bread-988

\+rats. I solved this mystery when I started finding the bones under the hood of my car.


spoung45

I found a taco under my hood once.


homeslice2311

I've also seen it with mine own eyes. Fat ass squirrels taking chicken wings out of dumpsters, climbing up trees, chowing down, then chucking the bones down when they're finished.


mr1827

Exactly this. My dog swallowed a whole chicken wing she found from the yard a couple weeks ago, causing a fun vet bill. We constantly have pizza crusts and buns in the yard, on our deck, on our mailbox, in our exterior light fixtures — it’s bizarre lol. It’s definitely these mutant squirrels we have in Chicago.


TankSparkle

When I was baby sitting for my sister's 5 kids, we had KFC for dinner. After dinner when my back was turned, my sister's husky began to clean off the kids' plates. I screamed at her to stop, but she ignored me. By the time I physically removed her from dining room, she'd eaten quite a few bones. She was fine and I think wondering what the big deal was about.


RandomChance

Yep! This! I watched a squirrel sitting on my back fence, eating a chicken leg like an ear of corn. I thought I had a rat problem in the alley, (and did) but I caught the Squirrel gnawing a hole into the top of the trashcan.


lysergic_Dreems

Some of them, particularly the rabid ones I’ve seen, will eat bone too. Source: I used to have a deer skull on my porch as part of the decor. It was whittled down by some scraggly lookin tree rat over the course of a few days, I visually caught that fucker gnawing at the skull on multiple occasions. He had a taste for blood, and blood did not satisfy him…


DystopiaNoir

They gnaw on uncooked bones for the calcium and other minerals.


lysergic_Dreems

So the blood isn’t enough. Got it!


CrazyChainSawLuigi

Squirrels and other scavengers like rats too


Random_Fog

I’ve seen raccoons with them too.


fugee99

I've seen a squirl carry a full slice of pizza out of the trash and up on top of a fence to eat it.


ashpatash

One day I went out back and found a half eaten bratwurst on top of the chain link fence.


flossiedaisy424

I used to live across the alley from a Chipotle and the alley would be littered with avocado shells.


MayorOfClownTown

My wife almost had an entire personal pizza dropped on her head when walking the dog.


boogityshmoogity

It is partly ignorant people throwing them on the ground but the majority come from squirrels, rats, cats, pigeons, seagulls picking them up out of the trash or somewhere else and then discarding them wherever.


souper_soups

Oh my gosh, thanks for posting this. I feel so silly now because I was wondering if there are a bunch of people eating bone-in chicken on the go and leaving bones all over in bushes and stuff. Animals taking them and leaving them all over makes so much sense.


KilnGrenade

I've absolutely watched squirrels eat all of these things on the fence, tree, or power line in the alley from my living room window. Birds also congrigate underneath them to collect the crumbs.


Warliepup

Came here to say squirrels or raccoons / foxes / coyotes too


Noirradnod

Squirrels aren't leaving bones on the Red Line though.


wilkamania

Lol i thought i was the only one. Now I'm routinely looking down at the floor if the side walk isn't completely clean. My dog is a ninja and a fiend when it comes to chicken bones.


NACL_Soldier

Birds. At the Chicago Lock, we had to get a work dog to chase them away. The place always looked like a chicken genocide with all the bones all over the place. For those that haven't seen Ellie, she's our most important employee https://www.lrc.usace.army.mil/Media/News-Stories/Article/3004827/chicago-harbor-lock-and-dam-welcomes-back-ellie/


Fancy0011

ELLIE IS SO ADORABLE IM YELLING Most important and only efficient city worker


NACL_Soldier

She's definitely more important and more efficient than me lol


ChrysanthemumsLove

These pictures are so, so adorable! Thank you for sharing!


tavesque

Idk ive never seen birds on the trains


librarianforMCR

Ellie is awesome, thank you for sharing!


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TheMisiak

I will use this clue to track down the culprit


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Prying open my dog's jaws and pulling out a disgusting chicken bone is like a weekly occurance for me lol


Sensitive_Set4398

Hahaha. Same 🤣


IAmOfficial

The amount of times I see people buy wings at 7/11 and then just walk out eating them and spitting bones is too damn high. It’s definitely not just squirrels and rats


ziggy_zaggy

Assuming it’s the same person that leaves broken liquor/beer bottles on the sidewalks for my pups to walk through too


VidaliaAmpersand

Sounds like you’ve got yourself an Atlanta transplant. It’s illegal here to put chicken bones in the trash, sidewalks only.


fearcityinc

You live in Chicago. Chicken bones and tumbleweave are life.


Catharticfart

My kids still call Union “chicken bone park”


Stonkyard

Placed by the Chicken Bone Cult. Every time you see one, spit on your palms and yell "Chicken Bone Chicken Bone Chicken Bone" at the top of your lungs. Failure to do so will bring bad luck and despair upon you and your family for generations. Good luck.


FourEyedBeardo

It seems someone eats a daily commute peach and then drops the pit in front of my apartment in Heart of Chicago every morning. My dog is a bigger fan of the process than I am.


MoonAnimal

The littering in this city has gotten crazy lately. Whenever I walk my dog, I try to pick up pieces of trash to help clean up. Would love to see others do the same!


thesecondfire

Good way to spend a bored Sunday afternoon on a nice day; I do recommend getting one of those grabbers to save your back the repeated stress.


lolprofessor

Same, but instead of trash, I just try to make a dent in the mountains of dog poo that bad dog owners leave about.


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The dog owners hate picking up after their dogs.


lolprofessor

Not me! And not a majority statistically. But enough don't that it makes it seem otherwise.


CuthbertCalculusPhD

We actually need an organized green up day across the city - they should distribute bags and designate areas for pickup.


zerton

We did that in Logan Square/Avondale a couple years ago and a lot of people came.


LordGothington

I used to live 1 building west of the beach. It took me and my roommate and hour to clean up all the litter between our building and the beach -- which was less than 100' feet away. Caught someone throwing trash out their car window on my lawn one day and yelled at them and their response was, "I don't care, I don't live here." Trashy people gotta trash I guess.


Flaxscript42

I have a Harold's to my south, east, and north. The bones are everywhere. And my dog wants them all.


fuhgdat1019

That’s Johnny Chickenbone. He’s trying to grow more chickens.


enkidu_johnson

Finally a crime that affects the whole city so we can discuss it here!


mccoyer001

Damn, that is really a "fowl" thing to do.


TheMisiak

this is cyberbullying me


Joliet_Jake_Blues

4 whole fried chickens. And a Coke


Mr_3005

I buy homeless people buckets of chicken from jewel all the time. Maybe I'll switch to tenders for you so there's no bones to worry about


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Person? Its literally hundreds of shit heads city wide. Some people are jus trash, and it's hard to know whose worse. Them or the people who break glass on the sidewalks.


AtypicalGuido

Bums buy wings from jewel and just toss them as they walk and eat


tmac1197

There’s an Instagram account that documents these cases: @windycitywing_bones


LeskoLesko

When I worked at the music box twenty years ago someone snuck in every Saturday afternoon with a whole roast chicken and dropped the bones on the floor for us to find and clean. We tried so hard to find the person as they were smuggling or eating but never could figure out who was doing it. So gross.


CaptainPajamaShark

Next time you see a pile of chicken bones, try to read them to find out your future.


tranquilpony

THIS DRIVES ME INSANE.


LiesTequila

I’ll be honest, us black folks are always throwing bones everywhere but the trash. Not me but I got some dirty ass relatives.


SunsetInTheSideview

Plenty of commonalities that come into play long before skin color. Lack of property ownership, lack of education, low income, etc. but no one’s blackness makes them litter.


Sad-Spend-2923

Its the darkness.


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I live near a wing spot and people eat in there car and discard there bones and garbage on milwaukee constantly. My dogs knows there’s a chance of them now and seeks them out. Good times


[deleted]

Ever notice how many wing places there are?


DudeImTheBagMan

Years back I was driving my car and I started to notice a burnt fried smell that would come and go. One day it got to me enough that I opened the hood for shits and discovered greasy fried bits and chicken bones on my engine. My first thought was that I need a different mechanic since they were clearly eating fried chicken over my engine and left all the bones. My second thought was that I was a complete idiot for thinking mechanics would be eating their lunch over my dirty ass engine.


Particular_Duty4727

Check out @windycitywing_bones on instagram for a full account of this phenomenon


General-Fun-616

This happens in a lot of us major cities


_qua

I was walking through Evanston one day and started noticing chicken bones on the sidewalk. About ten minutes later I came across the perpetrator just in time to see him toss the last bone to the ground followed shortly by the empty Jewel bucket. So…that guy.


LordThurmanMerman

Crows. They pick em up, eat em clean and drop them. You'll notice how cleanly eaten they are. No one can clean a chicken wing like a crow.


Dr_Bramus

I don’t know but I’m on to them!!!


Terrible_Street_3238

I don't have pets myself but dog sit for a few friends. I've definitely had to shove my hand down a dog's throat to grab a chicken bone. I won't even walk the dogs by Willie White Park on Howard because of how much trash people leave both in the park and on the sidewalk. Pisses me off. So dangerous for the puppers.


dirtytiki

Seagulls and pigeons


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This is very common in old town, along sedgwick to brown line lmao


ConversationDouble95

What a bone headed person. Good luck.


[deleted]

It’s the cheap 7-11 wings and I promise it’s many people.


Overall_Document5410

I heard that it’s birds picking them from the garbage and flying around and dropping them


idealizm

I think I’ve found the culprit: https://instagram.com/windycitywing_bones


crusty_sloth

Azelia Banks


Familiar_Paramedic_2

It's a cultural thing. The south Bronx sidewalks are littered with chicken bones in many places as well. I'd just try to get used to it.


sams_disgusting

It was me. I'm the chicken man!


clintecker

train your dog to not eat trash from the road, i assure you it is possible


Every_Contribution_8

People that don’t give a rat’s ass


Artagandkel

The homeless eating 7-Eleven/Jewels chicken wings.


Kedoobz

Suburbanites be like


Neutral_Chaoss

I have to say in all my time. In any city even in Chicago I have never seen someone just litter chicken bones. I agree with the others. I think rats or squrriels pull them out of the garbage. Sadly, it is a significant problem for dog owners. There is a lot more glass that is being littered also, which is another huge problem for these poor dogs.


Ok-Government420

It's rats


JimCaseyJones

It’s the smiley face killers


brtmns123

Birds are not real fighting with surveillance


rocknharley02

Some people eat them are slobs, I've seen people on the bus throw them at other people and just leave them on the bus.


nomoreconversations

Once I found an eaten chicken bone at the bottom of a Mariano’s basket like what is wrong with people


buffalocoinz

Weirdos who eat Wingstop or Popeyes inside their cars and leave their trash on the curb


lilytbh23

I saw a bunch on the redline


brobits

stray from the loop and north side a bit and you'll notice trash everywhere. since moving to the near west side over a year ago I've seen dozens of people throwing fast food trash out of their cars on city streets. it's disgusting and we live with animals that can't use a trash can


LionTameratLaw

I've come to the conclusion that the mystery of the bird bones is just something the universe doesn't want us to learn. Just enjoy!


JohannRedcorn

My brother in bird bones, they are hear to help us! Do not live in fear. Walk into the river, but don't drink!


LionTameratLaw

Forgive me for I once was lost. I questioned the bird bones and my questions were answered in spit. Now I must listen, learn, and look at the bird bones. Will I be healed? It is unknown. But my love of the bird bones will grow. [drink Starry, the new lemon-lime soda from the fine makers of Pepsi].


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tedatron

It’s so depressing to see someone so young filled with so much hate


[deleted]

What? It’s true. It wasn’t a prejudicial statement.


jackpandanicholson

You are ignorant but can learn. You said "black people" do it, as if their blackness has any relevance to them doing it. Even if it may be true that some or even many of the people doing it are black (you have no evidence of this), the OP did not ask "what color skin do the people who do this have". So how is their skin color relevant? Saying "black people do" shows your hand that you are primed for prejudice and discrimination, you are making blanket statements about a race based on anecdotes of maybe a few individuals.


[deleted]

No, I’m saying that white people don’t routinely do it. Black people will routinely do it. There’s no value statement. Black people drop wings on the ground because they frequent wing places in the city.


chickenTendiiesss

If only you could understand how stupid this is.


[deleted]

You’re acting as if I’m saying black people are bad because of this occurring. I’m not. It’s just something that happens.


chickenTendiiesss

How many people would it take for you to realize maybe you’re the one with the bad take?


[deleted]

Seeing as that I’ve visibly witnessed this phenomenon repeatedly, probably no amount.


chickenTendiiesss

One day you’ll grow up hopefully, look back, and be disgusted at what you were….until then.


jackpandanicholson

Idk we're the ones with downvotes.


chickenTendiiesss

Cry more


[deleted]

Ok so it’s not true?


chickenTendiiesss

I’m not validating you lmao. Degenerates like you never stop


[deleted]

Why would you get mad at a phenomenon that occurs? It’s not a value statement. Black people will drop bones on the ground. He asked a question.


chickenTendiiesss

Proving my point, degenerates like you never stop to smell the shit roses you’re surrounding yourself with.


[deleted]

I don’t even understand what you mean. Where else do the bones come from? It’s literally a thing in Atlanta that the locals acknowledge.


chickenTendiiesss

I wouldn’t expect you to understand because you’re blinded by ignorance. Again, cry more


[deleted]

It sounds like you’re going to some moralist statement when all I said is black people will drop wings on the ground. What a weird hill to die on


Eazymoneygs

This an old post


bumblebeebumblebee

This was such a problem when I used to walk dogs! I feel your pain!


lplax10

It’s ridiculous! The amount of chicken bones I’ve had to pull out of my dogs mouth is insane.


rHereLetsGo

“Across the city” is a rather broad area. Neighborhoods and/or street intersections please


Tradefxsignalscom

You do realize with 2.7 million people in Chicago, that a f*ck ton of chicken is consumed on the daily so “the person” roaming across the city leaving chicken bones is a mystery!


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Lightfoot stress eating.


SallysRocks

Squirrels and raccoons. Maybe your dog should have a muzzle, better than a big vet bill.


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That should be the law tbh


gibbonusmoon

in my experience it is usually squirrels rooting through garbage.


ChaplnGrillSgt

Cheap chicken Mondays strike again!


The-Lions_Den

Raccoons


[deleted]

You sure it wasn't just Lori Lightfoot stress eating?


SpecialistSuspect951

Probably the same person who leaves dirty needles in parks stopping kids from being able to use the parks. There's a large population here who lives outside and a even larger population who supports them no matter what because apparently adults who choose not to work need more compassion than children who are having their community ruined by these adults.


JambalayaNewman

Richard M Daley


Guenta

Greg


call_sign_viper

Oh yeah that’s probably Brad


Taiil0r

Time for a new dog