Here's a hilarious story that also has a bit of important insight attached to it.

A Cleveland-area couple that is in the process of a divorce hatched a dispute over chickens. Deborah Valente and her husband George are still living under the same roof as their divorce plays out — which is not as uncommon as it sounds — and apparently they're not alone in the house. Deborah has five chickens that she's keeping indoors, and George objected, so he called the health department.

According to a report by a Cleveland TV station, the five chicks were found to be healthy. And better yet, they seem to be housebroken, as the report notes that "the bird droppings are confined to the newspaper at the bottom of the cage."

Yes, even chickens are crapping on newspapers these days.

Aside from the obvious fun you can have with a story like this, if you take a step back you can quickly see what's happening here. You've got a couple about to end their marriage, and the gloves are off and everything is fair game. So George called the health department, and we suppose the next development in this story will be Deborah chucking his recliner and TV out into the back yard. And maybe after that, the two of them will take turns buttering up doorknobs and hiding each other's car keys.

It's easy to be petty when you're splitting up with someone, and to retaliate for every wrong done to you. And when you look at it from the outside, you start to see how ridiculous it is to get caught up in such foolishness.

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