I've seen the incident mentioned on Hockey-L, but I
hadn't seen an article on it until today.
 
From U. MAGAZINE:
WHY THE CHICKEN FLEW THE COOP
by Joseph Hart, THE MINNESOTA DAILY
 
  A pedestrian crosswalk, a 30-foot inflatable chicken
and a Minnesota hockey goalie connected last
semester in a bizarre incident that ultimately led to the
athlete's arrest.
  Junior Jeffrey Callinan, starting goalie for the Gophers,
was one of three men arrested in connection with the
theft and damage of a $3,500 inflatable chicken head
that was mounted on the roof of a restaurant in Mound,
Minn., a suburb about an hour from campus.
  The chicken incident came as the latest development
in a long-standing civic battle.
  Fi Yin Moy, owner of The House of Moy, erected the
chicken to protest the Mound City Council's decision to
remove a pedestrian crosswalk in front of the restaurant.
A sign next to the chicken read, "How did the chicken
cross the road?  He couldn't.  He lived in Mound."
  Moy's daughter, Oy Moy, says the theft was politically
motivated.
 
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The article also includes a hilarious photo of the chicken
head and related sign/banner.  Too funny.
 
 
  John H
  U Mich
From the same page in U. MAGAZINE:
SUSPENDED:  An electrical engineering student, from Geneva
College in Beaver Falls, Penn., for programming his computer
to dial administrators' home phone numbers in the wee hours
of the morning.
  The student complained for months about an alarm system in
his dorm which interrupted his sleep.  After allegedly receiving
no response, he decided someone should pay.