Herndon Drone Surveillance Squad

While other explanations are certainly more factual, it appears that the Town of Herndon has decided to use drones to enforce the one-chicken law. Rumors have swirled that Herndon locals have been stuffing their coops with chickens, geese, and goats in an act of unparalleled civil disobedience, mistakenly believing that whatever they grow and eat in their backyards is none of the towns business. However, the town has a firm policy about local protein consumption that is part of the master plan, and it must be enforced through all means necessary. The master plan clearly states that town residents will eat free-range beef from cows raised on at least 1 acre of open pasture per animal, a requirement that the majority of residence are not able to meet on their suburban plots. While using chickens might appear to be an adequate, if not healthier substitute, adherence to the town master plan is compulsory. The people must eat beef.

In order to circumvent complicated and protracted house to house searches to seize and remove hens from insurgent yuppy backyard cultivators, the town may now be using their new found powers (as defined by the PATRIOT-Act/P0w4z! amendment) to employ air strikes to enforce the one-chicken policy. In principle, this keeps the courts unplugged with pesky locals demanding change, and keeps town staff from having to do valuable footwork. Certainly Herndon will become the suburban utopia we all dream of thanks to this wonderful development.

 I assume, since I saw no apparent projectiles traveling from the drone to local chicken coops, that excess chickens are either not-present or mus-identified as geese or children or something.

A close up of the Herndon Chicken Drone. You can see the highly sensitive fowl detector perched on the top of the unit scanning for excess hens, chicks, and roosters. It also appears to carry a broiler beam (the dot on the underside) so that town officials can flambe excess stock at range.