Spotted in Wired Magazine in their Culture:Lifestyle web site...http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_chicken_bingo.
Somehow I don't think this is going to make the New York Times Culture Pages.
AUSTIN, Texas -- During South by Southwest, out-of-town showgoers are increasingly seeking out a popular local institution: Chicken Shit Bingo, Austin's answer to Las Vegas' craps.
Every Sunday, locals jam into Ginny's Little Longhorn Saloon, a tiny, dark honky-tonk. There they down Lone Stars, shoot the breeze and listen to Austin country legend Dale Watson tease some soul out of his coin-covered guitar. But mostly, they're waiting for an orange hen named Sissy to steal the show.
The low-tech concept of Chicken Shit Bingo is beautifully simple: Put a live chicken in a cage atop a piece of plywood marked with a grid. Sell tickets for each of the 54 squares, then let the chicken strut around the cage. When the bird relieves itself, you've got a winner.
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