The Clay Edwards Show
The Clay Edwards Show
Clay Edwards
The "Usual Suspects" Steal $250,000 In Chicken (That's 5 Big Rig Trailer Loads) In Memphis
9 minutes Posted Sep 17, 2026 at 3:54 pm.
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**The Great Chicken Heist**
Memphis. Jackson’s sister city. Thirteen people caught behind a hotel on Lamar unloading pallets of chicken off an 18-wheeler. Quarter-million dollars of bird. Three guns on the scene. Felons in the mix. They tried to run. Task force bagged the whole crew.
Clay and Creston did what this show does: mock it till it cries. That’s a lot of chicken. Wings are already expensive. Thighs are through the roof. Somebody in that group thought a full reefer trailer was the ultimate caper and not one person said, “Bad idea.”
Where were they going to keep it cold? Who was buying it out the back door? Clay’s honest about it — stolen chicken for a restaurant is a health-code nightmare. Stolen chicken for a backyard barbecue is a different conversation.
Stereotypes didn’t walk onto that lot. Thirteen people did. The mugshots went on the screen. The jokes wrote themselves. Mock them till they cry, then make memes when they do. That’s the Great Chicken Heist.