11:00 AM -- This AP story from Boston.com holds a lesson for us all:

A woman shot her husband in the back after he killed her pet chicken, the Lane County sheriff's deputies said. Deputies said they were sure that Mary Gray, 58, intended to shoot her husband, Stephen Gray, 43. They weren't certain if the husband meant to fire at the chicken.

"We don't know if it was an accident or if it was on purpose," Sgt. Clint Riley said. "It depends who you ask."

Riley said the couple had been drinking for much of Monday...

I don't know how many times I've said it, but it always bears repeating: Never -- NEVER -- turn your back on a drunken woman who has a pet chicken.

— Larry, Attack Monkey, Light Reading