Rubber chicken-wielding man sought after cannibal threat

Residents of Street, England, have been urged not to panic after a man, holding a rubber chicken, threatened to eat a local woman. The Central Somerset Gazette reports that the man is still at large.

A woman was putting her bins out at Brookleigh, around 8.30pm, when she was allegedly approached by a man waving what appeared to be 'a long-barrelled weapon' and a 'fake chicken'.He pointed the weapon at the woman and told her he was going to eat her alive and he was going to eat her flesh, according to police.She ran inside and he chased after her.He started banging on the front door and broke a window as he tried to enter the property. He failed to get into the property and made off.

The man "is believed to be intoxicated," say police.

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