Pennsylvania police have raided another home owned by former Steelers cornerback Deshea Townsend in a drug bust.
Thankfully, no chickens were involved this time.
According to Liz Navratil of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Townsend owns a home in Ross where cops arrested several people on drug charges last year.
He also owned a property in Mount Washington, where cops found 1,500 bricks of heroin, 16 guns, more than $100,000 in cash and a live chicken.
Townsend, who now works as an assistant coach at Mississippi State, hasn’t been implicated in either case, and didn’t comment on either.
It appears he’s just the landlord, but he has a string of really bad tenants.
In the latest case, police responded to a call to a condominium, where a neighbor reported a loose pit bull, and then heard “a thud and then a dog yelping in pain.”
When they went inside, they found 30 bricks of heroin in a shopping bag with more than $7,000 in cash.
The case creates a number of questions, but the one that still haunts my dreams remains from the first one: Why one live chicken?
With two, you can have eggs. With multiple chickens, maybe it’s a cock-fighting ring or a poultry farm.
But one chicken is either dinner or a pet or a god or a sacrifice, and I may not sleep until I know the answer.
UPDATE 8:20 a.m. ET: I stand corrected. I’m informed by a renowned poultry scientist that one hen will lay unfertilized eggs without a rooster.
But still.