Had a boss who was a Marine in Vietnam, he told me a story about going through SERE training. The squad was sitting around the hooch they'd set up, after two days with no food and almost no sleep. They were hungry, tired, and dispirited. All of the sudden, this chicken wanders out between them. Everyone freezes, nobody wants to move a muscle and scare it off. One by one, each soldier sloooowly reaches for his bayonet, machete, a rock, a stick, whatever he can grab hold of. Almost as if on cue, they all go for the chicken at the same time.... In the ensuing scuffle, the chicken made a miraculous escape.