Why did Cluck Norris cross the road? To scare the people on the other side.

This week, as WFAA-TV (Channel 8) reported, Fort Worth Animal Care & Control staff captured Cluck Norris, a rooster who had been menacing residents in the city's Stop Six neighborhood.

They say you can't give yourself your own nickname, but Cluck Norris can. When Cluck Norris chose to fill the lives of Fort Worth residents with dread, he chose the people of Norris Street — which is why animal control staff gave Cluck Norris the name.

Then again, Cluck Norris isn't given names. Cluck Norris kicks butt and takes names.

Cluck Norris is so fierce that he menaced an entire street with just two gnarly feet and a beak.

"He was scary," resident Beverly Thompson told the news station. "He seems like he would attack you, and he did."

Cluck Norris swaggered along neighborhood streets, pecking at people as they got out of their cars.

"He's been terrorizing the neighborhood about a month now," said resident Patrick Coleman, recalling how his wife was scratched by Cluck Norris. "She had to run in the house real fast to try and get away from him. Every time he sees a car pull up, he's right there."

Well, of course. You can't sneak a car past Cluck Norris any more than you sneak a sunrise past a rooster.

Maybe Cluck Norris got cocky. Or maybe it was just time to move on. But the breaking point for the citizens of Stop Six came when Cluck Norris charged at the Colemans' small dog, Olivia. Then again, Cluck Norris may have been thinking: Who names a dog Olivia?

The Colemans called the animal services department, which picks up stray chickens and roosters more often than you might think. The fowl are permitted in Fort Worth as long as their coops meet city regulations.

Cluck Norris is thought to have escaped one of those coops. The one with the Rita Hayworth poster, most likely.

So Cluck Norris allowed himself to be taken into custody and is now in a pen, awaiting possible adoption. But for Cluck Norris, there are no prison walls, only fences he has not yet chosen to peck through.

Naturally, Norris Street residents already feel the void that Cluck Norris left behind. Thompson said she missed her doctor's appointment because Cluck Norris didn't crow that morning.