this feels like seeing a 14th century king having to solve the peasant’s problems one by one and there’s just these two guys fighting over a chicken trying to get the other publicly beheaded, splendid

“I’ve lived in Florida my whole life.” The most tragic opening line in history.

"So I'm defending myself. You know, I was fearing for my safety. And the chicken, ya know, died!" A truly comprehensive recollection of events.

I lived in Florida for about a year and saw so many unreal things. I once saw a guy get into a full on fist fight with a raccoon. The guy ended up pulling out a board so the raccoon was awarded the decision by DQ.

“Call the chicken ambulance?” Truly a shame that Florida doesnt have the chicken health care infrastructure that so many of its feathered denizens deserve.

As a non-Floridan, I cannot confirm nor deny that Florida is real

Feel bad for James. He seems like a simple good ol boy. Probably can't spell too good but damn it he'll get you back on the road if you're broke down type of guy.

i was born and raised in florida and moved away about 8 years ago, but at the last place i lived, there was a gang of wild chickens that roamed my neighborhood and at night they would fly up into this big tree in our backyard to sleep. they were pretty chill but the couple roosters were definitely assholes and we'd steer clear of them. florida is definitely not a real place

the fact that the internet allows the entire world to weigh in on what not long ago would have been the matter of just one small town is simultaneously hilarious and terrifying

I’m assuming shoe licking guy was actually just trying to build up his immune system. He wasn’t doing it for pleasure, he was vaccinating for diseases that would never even happen

My uncle works at a rooster ambulance and he says that people's apprehension to call them and ignorance about them is the cause for like half of all rooster deaths. So glad Charlie brought light to this subject.

A felony for a rooster??? This is just Skyrim logic at this point.

Charlie, it is your sole responsibility to follow this story through. Drop everything and become detective Charles. Interviews, attend the trial, give us the story we deserve

The “Australia is fake” conspiracy is what Florida is slowly developing into Edit: 3k likes holy shit thank you guys!

Anyone who lives remotely close to a rooster knows exactly how and why this went down

“ and he called the chicken police on me“ made me cackle

By Jason’s logic, James was just “playing” with Big Roo with a stick it wasn’t animal cruelty

James is out here looking genuinely stunned about this whole situation but he’s ready to go to court 😂

this is why everyone loves florida. there's no better reality show. you should do "Florida Friday" every week where you cover florida news

Me and my little bro have actually played the ''lets throw rocks at each other for fun game'' as kids one time. The fun part was not being able to see the rocks coming through the thick brush. It ended in him bleeding from his head as you would expect, but it is most definitely a thing 🤣

Charlie the only guy to sit down for 10 minutes talking about someone who killed a chicken and didn't call the chicken ambulance or chicken police.

Jason seems like one of those people that say "my child can do no wrong" when they are a future mass murderer.

I applaud your ability to keep a straight face while discussing this.

There was an article in our local gazette, about a chickenbreeder of quality chickens. He urged people do join in his apppaerently dying out profession and shared a story about how his prized chicken(not rooster mind you) hacked open his pulse artery when he handled it. This was a chick he was familiar with and raised it. Roosters can absolutely be dangerous, their wingstrikes are like elbow strikes , the talons and the beak is sharp.

As someone who owns chickens, roosters will literally murder each other. They have spurs on their legs which these use to stab each other and , of course, humans. If they jump and get you in the neck, well you’re dead. However, they follow a sort of pecking order, meaning if you put the rooster in its place it wont attack you. But if it feels its territory and flock are at risk, they’ll attack no matter what. Also, by territory, I mean anywhere they take a shit. Conclusion: Florida is, in fact, in the void, and roosters are nasty.

Charlie is right about roosters being aggressive. I've owned rooster before and have been attacked. Left a scar on my hand when it jumped at me and I couldn't move my fingers for a week. Their talons are sharp

as a non-existent Floridian I can confirm everything this man has said is indeed true.

this making the news is so wild to me, i live in a super rural area where having your dog shot and killed for being too close to someone’s house is a super regular occurrence

Roosters are extremely aggressive, and a neighbor's rooster would sometimes jump our fence and like do some territory claiming thing on our property, eventually our dog lily at the time attackedit. It seemed to have survived but the neighbor moved soon after as it was a rental property.

I love how Charles brings the hard hitting stories to the masses. Without this we would never have known about the chicken police. True heroes don't always wear capes... sometimes they just wear white tees

A friend of mine had a male pheasant regularly try to attack him on his land. He ended up having to use a stick to get it to go away but even when he poked it pretty hard it would keep going for him.

Busted out the Squidward dance 🤣. Touche Charlie

While I'm sad to hear that the animal has perished and that their friendship is ruined, I can't put the whole blame on James here: roosters are notoriously aggressive animals, they even attack men and could be dangerous with those talons. The rooster should've stayed fenced, you can't let such aggressive animals free to roam and attack people.

As someone who's had pet chickens and would be devastated if one of my girls died, I'm leaning towards James' side. Like yeah it's terrible that he never told his neigbor what happened, but Roosters are indeed aggressive and territorial. And contrary to their size, they will fuck you UP if they want to. Those spurs and talons tear through skin like razors and it's no rare occurence that chicken farmers have to cull the occaisional rooster because it's attacking farmhands or other hens. Big Roo likely thought the whole neighborhood was his territory since his owner never fenced him in and that's gonna cause problems for everyone.

I wasn’t paying attention to when he said the guy killed the rooster I thought he said the rooster got arrested 😂

“Who you gonna call..chicken ambulance” sounds like a kids show and a great one at that

A felony for killing a rooster that was chasing you is absolutely ridiculous

Florida Kill a person because he's kinda close: That's standing your ground Kill a rooster that's attacking you: That's a felony

This man makes me chuckle heartily with every other sentence that leaves his lips. Love this channel.

Feeling so bad for Big Roo because he probably had untreated anger issues and lashed out because he wasn't given proper care/attention and could've been a very useful and efficient bird if he wasn't mistreated and i still come back to this video to think about him. Rest in peace Big Roo

Roosters can actually be rather dangerous, they have sharp talons that can lacerate rather deep. Someone should of called animal control long before this happened. But I don't blame the guy for striking the rooster.

*James invites Jason over for a barbeque* *After the meal* James: "Jason, listen... I have some bad news."

This feels like a case King Solomon himself couldn't solve

5:41 To be fair, when I lived in Florida as a kid, I once snuck out in the middle of a night to participate in a rock war

James could go ahead and sue for getting wrongfully arrested. The owner of the rooster is the only one that is accountable for keeping his animals on his territory, and this clearly shows how irresponsible the owner was. This is so clucked up!

I've owned chickens for years and it is true that most roosters tend to be aggressive. Usually I just shuffle them around with my foot until they give up but its terrifying to people who don't have experience with roosters. They've got sharp spurs on the backs of their legs that can leave pretty big puncture wounds. I have two scars on the back of my leg from my rooster.

"Rooster opened up doing the Squidward dance..." Charlie always provides the perfect description.

You can tell from the first syllable the dude uttered that this was the panhandle

As someone who grew up on multiple farms, this was definitely self defense, most of the time you buy a rooster specifically because they're aggressive so that it'll protect your hens from coyotess owls, and lynx's, roosters will go toe to toe with anything just like a damn badger, and from my experience, there isn't any special burial ceremony people give to their roosters, at least not commonplace so throwing it in a ditch where it's out of the way of getting disturbed by traffic sounds like the only real option besides leaving the corpse by the owners house, which probably would have come off worse. Roosters are glass cannons in the perfect sense of the word, they can only take so much, but in that time you could pretty easily get a one way trip to the hospital. Ik general society probably sees this as a joke, but if it wasn't for that stick, this could have been a very different story

As someone in the farming community, keeping Roosters that show any aggression towards people is not acceptable. If the guy wanted a pet rooster, he needs to keep it contained in his yard. Roosters of large sizes can have really huge, damaging spurs they'll try to kick you with. Honestly the guy that had the rooster is lucky no one called animal control on it for attacking people in the community.

I met this guy at an airport once. He claimed this incident made him a celebrity and insisted I take a picture with him

Bird Murder. This is something out of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

A lot of the reason for the "Florida Man" stereotype is because of the Sunshine Law passed in Florida in 1995; it makes court charges a matter of public record as soon as they're filed as opposed to once they're decided like in most states. I wonder what would happen if other states followed that law for a couple weeks. I'd be willing to bet some random-ass unsuspecting candidates would blow Florida out of the water.

Imagine being sent to prison for 5 years because you hit a chicken with a stick and it died.

As someone from Tampa, hearing of someone going around licking shoes made me picture someone in ybor licking shoes so needless to say, I was not surprised when you said he was from ybor.

I just watched 10 minutes of 2 middle age man discussing about a rooster's death in Florida. Wtf am i doing with my life

can we just admire the state of Florida for giving us gold content like this while in the safety of our own homes

If he cared so much for that rooster he would’ve kept it on his property, there’s no scenario where a man is going to let a potentially dangerous animal roam around his house and attack him.

dude every time he addresses the chicken as “the body” i just start dying 🤣🤣🤣

The shoe licker is still around lololol 10 years later

The guy that was attacked had every right to defend himself, the talons on a Rooster are no joke. The pet owner is 100% at fault, he minimizes everything the guy that was attacked said and you can tell he just doesn't give a F.

I recently finished a geology class this last semester. My professor explains that the landmass of Florida did not come from North America, and it drifted itself into America over the course of millions of years. I didn't think I had yet another reason to believe Florida isn't real already. edit: I had to take a class w a lab since I'm a transferring art major, so this was the first time I was hearing about Florida's shimmy shimmy into what is now the United States. Other people can explain it better than me in the replies :)

florida is just where they test the unfinished npcs

I feel the same way about the state I live in, Missouri. You see soooo many weird things, even just driving, you may see something real weird

I've owned chickens before, and roosters can be real assholes. In essence, that's their job, but particularly aggressive roosters have to be dealt with. My first rooster, Colonel Sanders, was so aggressive we had to have him put down because he was dangerous. Rooster spurs are nothing to mess with; they'll flay you open. Overall: Owner should've been keeping the rooster contained at the very least, and James should've told him what happened. I mostly agree with James though.

"James should've said, the chicken attacked me and went straight to valhalla" is one of the best jokes I've ever heard.

"call it a lucky shot or whatever" loll

The breed of the rooster is usually very calm unless attacked

The owner should've kept his chicken in his yard while he's not around, for the safety of the chicken. And since the rooster clearly wasn't socialized well enough, it was also territorial which led it to attack people- which is dangerous for the people AND the chicken. And yes, chickens can cause a lot of damage, especially roosters. They grow sharp spurs on their legs. He may have cut them off, but if not, chickens can actually sometimes stab people to death.

Even in death, Big Roo is still causing a stir in the community

I used to have chickens, when ever i opened the pen to feed them, it poked its head through the hatch and bit my thumb and didnt let go. Had a scar for months

"Put the rooster on lease" wot?😂

As a Floridian myself as well, I can vouch that Florida is, in fact, not a real place. It's a different plain of existence that's easily accessible from this world. And with the insanity that's going around lately, I'd say it's influence has been steadily leaking into this world

When I was a baby my parents had a road island red rooster, appropriately named Red. He was taller than average, around two feet. He hated, HATED, my mother. Was otherwise completely fine. Sometimes roosters, if kept in bad conditions + don’t have hens around, are known to wake up one day completely different and terribly aggressive, especially to people. This was not Red, as the only person he ever hated was my mother. He would go outside her bedroom window, which is on the first floor but high up, and would jump up over and over again to stare at her. If she went outside, he would absolutely chase and attack with full power. If she wanted to get out of a car, she would open and close the opposite car door where he would run to, and then bolt inside while he was confused. It’s not uncommon for roosters to do this to people who have wronged them or something, but my mom never did anything to this chicken. Dude just hated her.

Good ol Duval county, remember seeing this on the news

❤ I’m a Floridian as well and can confirm this place is mythical AF and sometimes you can’t even believe your own eyes. Although we have thought about moving to other places, we have sadly become rooted into the story book life that is Florida. RIP too roo

For those who might not be aware of just how deadly roosters can be, there was a police officer in I believe it was the Philippines who had his throat slashed by a rooster from a cock fighting ring during a bust. To be fair it did have razor blades on its feet but it still tried to rip his throat out with zero hesitation.

Roosters can be actually aggressive and attack people, so I feel like his story about it being self defense is pretty believable

This is literally what happens in Skyrim

As someone who has been to Florida, I can confirm people asked me to if they could lick my shoes.

Definitely siding with James on this, he didn’t repeatedly beat it with a stick he got a lucky hit defending himself. He just shouldn’t have left there in the ditch, then go tell the owner what happened. The whole thing could have been avoided with communication. Plus Jason is irresponsible, nothing would have ever happened if he didn’t just let roosters wander other people’s property

As someone who’s owned roosters as a child, yes. They can be extremely aggressive. Mine wouldn’t back off no matter how much you tried to disengage or stay away. It’s sad what happened but definitely doesn’t deserve a felony charge lol

“Next thing you know, they called the chicken police on me” Holy hell I’m dead

R.I.P Big ro. True legend.

I had a rooster as a child and that thing grew to the size of a small dog. Let me tell you, when a rooster puffs up and starts doing that threatening dance he isn't posturing. His is going to attack 100%. I got into literal fights with it and he would always manage to do damage to me. Now that I'm older I know that I could have easily lost an eye. Most are no problem but every now and again you get a Gallo Negro (Black Chicken) which is a term used for the biggest baddest rooster/person there is (Not always but the myth perpetuates that those roosters usually they tend to have black or grey feathers). The term gets referenced in the movie Blood In Blood Out to describe Paco.

"Florida isn't real." - A Floridian Honestly, an eminently believable quote

I forgot about the Ybor Shoe Licker. I've only heard of the guy cause I don't go that way much, I normally stay in Pinellas instead of going across the bridge

Dude Charlie should have a TV show where he's the judge and he has to deal with all these ridiculous ass cases

I love how you can essentially kill a human being in Florida if they’re threatening you, but if you do the same thing to a chicken you’ll be arrested. Florida is just magical.

“Who plays by throwing rocks at each other?” Me, Charlie. That was the hottest game on the school playground.

James should have left Roo on the front door with a post-it that says "I think this is yours"

why do i find it so funny that the rooster is called "big roo"😂

The way he said "Call the chicken ambulance?!?!?", I lost it.... I'm hurting now because I laughed so hard.

Earily similar situation happened to my younger brother when he was about 10. He'd take a somewhat bulky stick with him for protection against the rooster whenever taking the eggs from chickens. One time the rooster jumped at him, so he just swung the stick, hit him on the head. Rooster dropped down and never woke up after that one strike. I saw it with my own eyes. If a 10 year old can accidentally kill a rooster like this, I am sure a grown man can.

That chicken definitely went out better than a factory farm chicken

Jason couldn't keep his animal on his property, he also allowed it to be in danger and called it playing (Kids throwing rocks at it) is just wholely irresponsible pet ownership, Imagine letting your Pet get rocks thrown at it for any reason and calling yourself a responsible pet owner

I've raised chickens, and roosters can be very aggressive. I'll never forget the most bad ass rooster I ever met, I had to go get geared up in chaps, Carhartt jacket, work gloves and welding mask, in the middle of Oklahoma summer, to battle this rooster for five minutes to butcher him. That rooster would have killed me without my PPE.

That Florida guy had me in stitches when he mentioned the chicken police

When you get your first side quest in the shivering isles 😆😆🤣

Totally on James side... Who know how long the neighborhood had to suffer from the roosters terror. I'm sure he didn't want to kill him but cmon putting a man in jail over a self defense act against the rooster is just so ridiculous...