Bumpiest bump ever.
Last night while talking with Paddy I told him about this occasion when I watched my dad killing a chicken by cutting off its head; the chicken wouldn't stay still and it managed to escape, and started running around
headless for what seemed like an eternity (it was probably less than a minute though).
I was only 5 or 6 years old, and although I don't think I felt particularly shocked by it (more like completely bewildered), it's something I'll never be able to remove from my memory.
Anyway: then he asked me if I had ever heard of
Mike the Headless Chicken... So I looked it up and, holy crap...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken