Flew the coop: Meet the police officer from a chicken chase body cam video gone viral

It's an age-old question:"Why did the chicken cross the road?" A police department in Arkansas may have an answer."Apparently, to sit on someone's porch and not move," the Jonesboro Police Department said this week in a Facebook post, which included pictures of Officer Nathan Swindle with a chicken.The police officer has gone viral on social media after a chicken gave him chase while on duty last weekend.

The police officer has gone viral on social media after a chicken gave him chase while on duty last weekend.On Sunday afternoon, Tia Dulaney noticed the chicken in question on her apartment's front porch in Jonesboro, which is about 70 miles from Memphis, Tennessee. "I waited for like 5 minutes until you know to see if it was gonna, you know, leave or whatever and it never did," Dulaney said."I was trying to shoo it off a little bit and it took off and so I was like, 'Man, I gotta catch it,' and so I immediately started running," Swindle said.

For the next 4 minutes and 20 seconds, the officer chased the chicken around a parking lot. The bird eluded the officer with sly moves, such as running under railings and hiding under a car.Rare flamingo sighting on Lake Michigan in Wisconsin"I think she just thought I was going to shoo it off and call it good, but she sure got a kick out of it," he said.His efforts to corral the bird have earned him a nickname.

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