Speeders Killing Chickens A new highway was built passing Farmer Brown's farm. At first traffic was light and there were no problems. But slowly traffic increased, and Farmer Brown's chickens were getting run over. It finally got to the point where he was losing 3 to 5 chickens a day to speeding cars. Farmer Brown called the local sheriff and asked him to do something about the speeding cars killing the chickens. The Sheriff told Farmer Brown that since he lives so far from town that a police car couldn't be stationed on the highway. So Farmer Brown asked if he could put up a sign to slow people down. The Sheriff privately thought that it wouldn't do any good, but told the farmer to go ahead just so long as the sign was on his own property and he didn't change the speed limit or block the road. A few weeks later the Sheriff ran into Farmer Brown in town, and asked how the sign worked. Farmer Brown said, "The ol' sign has been the best thing I've done. Haven't lost a chicken since I put it up, the cars are slowing down, and I have people dropping in all the time buying my eggs. Yup, best thing I could've done." This made the Sheriff curious, so he decided to take a drive out on the highway to see this great anti-speeding sign. When he came to the curve on the highway going past Farmer Brown's farm he saw a full sheet of plywood, painted bright yellow, with big black letters saying: Welcome to Farmer Brown's Nudist Colony.