The desk sergeant and the two arresting officers howled with laughter when they saw it! Other police officers were called to the front desk to have a look. Soon the whole police stations officers were bent over howling with laughter. The desk sergeant said to the photo man, when he recovered from his hysterics, "Let it stand. Print the photo, it goes into the book of mugshots". You can just imagine someone trawling through the mugshot book trying to identity a violent criminal and on one of the pages, there's Mr Finleyson and Martha staring into the camera! The picture of Martha is still in the book at the local Nick in Norwich and has gone down in history as a first! Because of the rioting, all the cells were full. They had even had to put three in each cell. The station was bursting at the seams! Gilbert and Mr Finleyson were told to go and sit in the holding cell by the booking desk! Martha was taken away from Mr Finleyson and put back on top of the counter, while the arresting policeman put down some water and feed for her. They had brought a small sackful from the back of Mr Finleyson's Land Rover. The other arresting officer went and fed and watered the other eight hens, which were now settled into the kennels out the back. The cell door was open and he and Gilbert could see Martha on top of the long counter, pecking at her food. She stopped and looked over at them with her shining, black beady eyes. Mr Finleyson could swear Martha winked at him, then finished eating. All the police at the station seemed to be enamoured with her. The two bowls were removed from the counter. Martha then began to dance!