Yesterday, we informed you that the King Mango Strut- Coconut Grove's irreverent, wacky, and somewhat inexplicable post-Christmas parade -- might be no more after this year. The Man's got them down.If so, it's going out with a bang -- or more of a peck, really. (What is it about certain animals that makes you want to make really lame puns?) They've just named the Grand Marshal for this year, and it's Mr. Clucky. The impressively crowned, irresistibly friendly male chicken became a South Beach fi
Jacqueline CariniMr. Clucky and Buckley in 2007 What started out as a simple blog post on Riptide bringing the bizarre news that local celebrity rooster Mr. Clucky may be getting the boot from his Miami Beach home because of code violations has turned into a full fledged media firestorm. A crew from The Today Show has been following Mr. Clucky and his owner Mark Buckley for a feature set to air Friday morning. The Miami Herald, Fox News, NPR, The AP,and UPI have all chronicled the
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Watch out, Commish. If flocks of chickens suddenly grow the size of buildings and take over the world, Miami Beach residents better run for cover. The angry fowl would stomp with a vengeance to homes of city commissioners, peck off their roofs, and set fire to an ordinance on their doorsteps.
Why? Well, in the past five years, more chickens have been evicted from the Beach under the livestock ordinance than any other creature considered a "farm animal." Seven
Jacqueline CariniMr. Clucky and Buckley in 2007 Mr. Clucky, perhaps the most famous rooster since Foghorn Leghorn, is apparently leaving town. Clucky's owner Mark Buckley told Local 10 he's packing up the fowl, his girlfriend Wallflower, and all of their shared worldly possessions and heading to rural New Hampshire, where Buckley owns a farm. In May, Buckley was fined for keeping Clucky as a pet in his Miami Beach apartment. Recently, the city decided to fine h
On Tuesday, pretty much every local outlet -- including this one -- reported that code-violatin' gangsta poultry Mr. Clucky was fleeing the state in order to avoid a $50-a-day fine. But yesterday afternoon, the rooster's owner, Mark Buckley, phoned Riptide to let us know that, in fact, he and his rooster (and his rooster's girlfriend) always head to his home in New Hampshire when it gets too hot down here. In a couple of weeks, Buckley will load the chickens into his 1966 Ford pickup a
