MIKE THE HEADLESS ROOSTER

this is a strange kind of crule but true thing of interest called "mike the headless chicken"
    mike was a rooster that a farmer named Lloyd Olsen tried to chop the head off so he could have mike for a meal but it did not work out the way olsen thought.
    olsen did chop off mike the rooster's head but mike, not only did not die, he went on living farely normal (as normal as a rooster can without a head) for 18 months because half of the brain stem and one ear was still intact.
    mike was fed and watered with an eye dropper through where his head once was and grew to be around 8 pounds. mike was inducted into the guiness book of records and went on tour from coast to coast.
    fortunately for mike, olsen never did get his roasted (baked, fried, whatever?) mike meal but fortuately for olsen, mike was valued at some $10,000.00 and insured for the same amount when he died.