--- title: Rooster Attack Leads to $20,000 Settlement in Long Island description: A Long Island town agreed to a $20,000 settlement with the family of a girl who was injured by a rooster at a petting zoo in town. canonical: https://time.com/91806/rooster-attack-leads-to-20000-settlement-in-long-island/ author: Noah Rayman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-07T23:01:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:29.956Z og:title: Rooster Attack Leads to $20,000 Settlement in Long Island og:description: A Long Island town agreed to a $20,000 settlement with the family of a girl who was injured by a rooster at a petting zoo in town. og:url: https://time.com/91806/rooster-attack-leads-to-20000-settlement-in-long-island/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rooster Attack Leads to $20,000 Settlement in Long Island twitter:description: A Long Island town agreed to a $20,000 settlement with the family of a girl who was injured by a rooster at a petting zoo in town. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Rooster Attack Leads to $20,000 Settlement on Long Island  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman May 7, 2014 11:01 PM UTC  by [Noah Rayman](https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman May 7, 2014 11:01 PM UTC A Long Island town agreed to a $20,000 settlement with the family of a girl [who was injured by a rooster at a petting zoo](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/07/cock-a-doodle-sue-smithtown-rooster-attack-claim-settled/) in town, CBS New York reports via Newsday. Kaylie Weiss received lacerations on her face from a rooster at the petting zoo in Smithtown’s Hoyt Farm Nature Preserve in 2011. A judge still needs to sign off on the settle, which was approved by the Smithtown Town Board Tuesday night. \[[_CBS New York_](http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/05/07/cock-a-doodle-sue-smithtown-rooster-attack-claim-settled/)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/91806/rooster-attack-leads-to-20000-settlement-in-long-island/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/91806/rooster-attack-leads-to-20000-settlement-in-long-island/"},"headline":"Rooster Attack Leads to $20,000 Settlement on Long Island","datePublished":"2014-05-07T23:01:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:29.956Z","description":"The family of a girl who was injured by the bird on a trip to the petting zoo brought the suit.","url":"https://time.com/91806/rooster-attack-leads-to-20000-settlement-in-long-island/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Settlements"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/91806/rooster-attack-leads-to-20000-settlement-in-long-island/","name":"Rooster Attack Leads to $20,000 Settlement on Long Island"}}]}] ```