Why did the chicken cross the road?

We still don't know but it seemed she was hitching a ride. It went like this:
We were driving through Solola, with its narrow and steep streets, when a chicken wandered off the sidewalk and into our path. Johnny, already going slow, stopped, honked, then began inching forward. I expected to see the chicken on one side or the other but she didn't appear. A man down the road (in front of us) kept staring back at us. We didn't know why until about halfway down the block, the chicken jumped off the front bumper and was scooped up by a man and hustled back up the street! We still don't know if he thought we were stealing her!

Maria
jcoker@caminternational.org