Just to play on the other side of the fence...
A lot of people simply aren't educated about stuff like this. They never taught me in school. Everything I know about chickens I learned from silkiechicken. I didn't know hens went broody, that different chickens laid different colored eggs, or how hens were kept in commercial farms. I certainly didn't know that chickens had personality!
Someone could say the same thing about almost everything, especially when they aren't familiar with it. For example, when you get shocked by static electricity, that can be over 15,000V! But why don't you die? Well, it is because it is low amperage. If you grab a wire in your house that is only a "measly" 120V, you can get seriously shocked, or even killed. To me, common knowledge, to most, it isn't. There is also a difference between DC and AC, with DC being safer than AC.
It is funny to hear people say these things, but, educate instead, else we would all still be ignorant! I do know, however, that it isn't always practical to educate. I hear a lot of misinformation in the firearms world.
I will admit that these stories are funny, but that was me 26 months ago...