The job is sometimes thankless… In the middle of last week, the municipal police officers of Orgeval (Yvelines) were forced to honor a rather unusual mission: for two hours, they watched over Ruby… a hen who had just been found in the street.
At the start of the day, the red-feathered gallinaceous bird is discovered by local residents, rue de la Verte salle, in the city center.
Dispatched to the scene, the municipal police gently collect the runaway bird.
What to do with it?
Unfortunately, there is no other alternative: the hen goes to the post, escorted by her servant knights.
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It was finally the social networks that transformed the epic into a Christmas tale, a little before the hour.
There are regularly photos of lost objects: bank cards, glasses, keys, cuddly toys waiting to be returned under the duvet.
Ruby's photo was posted on Facebook
This time, it was this adventurous hen who found herself posted on the Facebook page “My Little Orgeval”, with this bottle thrown into the sea by an administrator: “Red hen found on rue de la Verte salle.
The police took her away because they couldn't leave her on the street.
Let the owner pick her up at the post before 6 p.m.
The message generates the inevitable joke of a user: “A hen among the chickens…”
In the course of the afternoon, phew: over the course of the exchanges, we learn that the hen has been recognized by its owner and that it has found the comfort of the domestic hearth.
“It was a member of this Facebook group who warned me, says Mélissa on the phone, this Friday.
We have two hens who are in a pen at night but who roam our property all day.
I still don't know how she managed to get out… She crossed the gardens and found herself on the road.
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"The police were really great," applauds the owner
When Mélissa arrived at the police station with two of her five children, Ruby the runaway was, if you dare the image, like a rooster in dough.
“The police were really great, applauds the mother of the family.
They had found a small cage for her to wait in safety and neighbors had even given them seeds to feed her.
I ran into a policewoman the next day, who asked me about her.
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“The municipal police actually took care of it very carefully, welcomes the mayor (Horizons) of Orgeval, Hervé Charnallet.
It was kind of the event of the afternoon!
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Of the 1,530 hectares of land occupied by the municipality, only 500 are occupied by human activity.
“Orgeval is best known for its Quarante-sous zone, very busy and very commercial, but most of the city is made up of natural areas, underlines the elected official.
Municipal police officers are therefore used to managing issues related to animal life.
It is a theme to which they are, in fact, aware.
Ruby the Hen can attest to that.