Animal rights activists told Gothamist they rescued 83 chickens from an abandoned U-Haul truck in Flatbush, Brooklyn, on Friday night.
The NYPD confirmed the incident, which it said happened around 8:30 p.m. “The chickens were removed to an undisclosed sanctuary,” a police spokesperson said in a statement.
John Di Leonardo, executive director of Humane Long Island, said he received a call from a NYPD officer around 6 p.m. on Friday informing him about the chickens and the truck…