A man wearing a giant chicken costume and carrying a squirt gun attacked staff members in The State Hornet offices last week.

Writers and photographers were working Thursday at 2 p.m. when a man wearing a yellow chicken costume, followed by a woman with a video camera, entered the office and sprayed four people, a computer, a keyboard and a scanner with water.

“At first I thought it was somebody from the staff,” Diane Kauffman, the newspaper?s advertising manager, said. “It turned out to be a random chicken.”

Layla Bohm, The Hornet?s editor in chief, chased down the woman and masked man to get their names as they waited for an elevator on the University Union?s second floor.

She took their names, but as of deadline, the identities of the attackers not been confirmed by university police.

Officer Roger Britton responded to the squirt gun call.

“We look at it for its basic content and this is, in fact, a simple battery,” Britton said.

Battery is any willful and unlawful use of force or violence by one person on another.

None of the victims suffered any injury and the electronic equipment was not damaged.

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