{"id":407220,"date":"2025-11-27T01:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407220\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T01:04:13","slug":"heartless-owner-abandons-chicken-on-nyc-subway-before-being-put-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/407220\/","title":{"rendered":"Heartless owner abandons chicken on NYC subway \u2014 before being put down"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is so clucked up.<\/p>\n

A coldhearted commuter abandoned a chicken on a Queens train last week, leaving it to foul up the car enough during its overnight stay that the MTA was forced to take the locomotive out of service and animal control had to put the poor bird down,\u00a0The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

The tiny white farm animal was discovered around 5:20 a.m. last Thursday, squatting inside a parked W train that was being queued up to enter service at the Astoria-Ditmars stop.<\/p>\n

The frightened fowl had been sitting alone in the empty train car all night \u2014 and was so terrified that it was found cowering next to its own pile of filth,\u00a0according to the Daily News<\/a>, which first reported the heartbreaking saga.<\/p>\n

A chicken was ruthlessly abandoned on a W train overnight last Thursday. Christopher Sadowski<\/p>\n

It was later found to be sick, and was put to death.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, the chicken was very ill and had to be humanely euthanized,\u201d a spokesperson for the\u00a0city\u2019s Animal Care Centers\u00a0<\/a>told The Post.<\/p>\n

It is not clear whether the chicken was sick before it was abandoned or if its illness led its owner to ditch it. Officials did not say what kind of illness the bird had, only that it wasn\u2019t suffering from bird flu.<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage shows its cruel \u2014 and unidentified \u2014 owner waddle onto the train from an elevated platform somewhere in northern Queens at around 9:30 p.m., a source who witnessed the video told The Post.<\/p>\n

He even showed off his egg-laying pet to other commuters.<\/p>\n

The poor bird was discovered just before the train was set to be put into service at the Astoria-Ditmars station. Stefano Giovannini<\/p>\n

But after about an hour and a half,\u00a0however, the heartless straphanger set the chicken down on a seat beside him, calmly stood up and callously exited the car without looking back at the helpless bird.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe chicken remains seated,\u201d\u00a0one source told the Daily News,\u00a0opining that the bird was \u201cproperly, respectfully seated\u201d during its ride, and \u201cdid not appear to violate any Transit rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crews apparently missed the bird when they conducted a walkthrough of the train and parked it on the layup track south of Astoria-Ditmars around 10:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

The chicken was suffering from an illness and was euthenized. Valmedia \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n

After a cold night alone in the dark, the poor fowl was discovered by the next train crew the following morning.<\/p>\n

The train operator reported that the bird was \u201crefusing to leave\u201d and noted that it had \u201csoiled the interior of the car,\u201d according to The News.<\/p>\n

The train was deemed too dirty to go into its scheduled 6 a.m. service as a southbound W train \u2014 plus running the bird off the train into the crowd of commuters waiting to board at Astoria-Ditmars didn\u2019t seem like a bright move.<\/p>\n

The chicken spent the night alone in a railyard. UCG\/Universal Images Group via Getty Images<\/p>\n

Instead, rail control canceled the run and sent the train \u2014 with the chicken as its only passenger \u2014 to the Coney Island Yard.<\/p>\n

An MTA worker scooped up the bird upon arriving at the yard and fed it some bread before passing it into the hands of the NYCACC \u2014 which ultimately put the animal to death.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson could not provide additional details on the animal\u2019s health.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also not clear whether the heartless owner could face any charges for abandoning the poultry \u2014 though abandonment is a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is so clucked up. A coldhearted commuter abandoned a chicken on a Queens train last week, leaving…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":407221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5858,191960,27814,5248,405,403,7619,5226,5225,5228,5227,4413,28715,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-407220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-animal-abuse","10":"tag-animal-care-and-control","11":"tag-chicken","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-new-york-city-life","16":"tag-newyork","17":"tag-newyorkcity","18":"tag-ny","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-queens","21":"tag-subways","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-us-news","28":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}