A plucky poultry played chicken with a car travelling at 70mph - and the car came off worse. Driver Huang Lingyong, 31, was at the wheel when the bird-brained pedestrian suddenly crossed the road in front of him.
But instead of squashing the chicken and leaving it as roadkill, it smashed a huge hole in his bonnet, where it stayed until the car stopped moving. The accident happened near an industrial park in Xinfeng county in south China’s Jiangxi province.
Huang said: "I braked because I am an animal lover and didn't want to harm the chicken. "But it was too late. I heard a sickening thud and I thought the chicken had gone to meet his ancestors.
"I stopped the car, got out and walked around to the front. There was a hole in the bodywork and the chicken wedged inside. "I thought it must be dead but then I heard a cluck-clucking and bent down to look closer.
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It was a little shaken up and its feathers all ruffled, but otherwise OK." He added: "It seemed to me to be a very good advert for the durability of chickens and a very bad one for the quality of the car that I was driving.
"I took some video with my phone and uploaded the pictures on to the web and I was not surprised when there was a lot of feedback from people who shared my opinion of the car." The car manufacturer, a Japanese company, have insisted the bumper of the car, which was so easily destroyed by poultry, is not part of the original design, but is actually a cheap Chinese copy.
