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No, people will not run if heir head is cut off as the brain is detached to the other parts the body and thus, will not be able to send any signals for the body to move.

However, when a chicken is decapitated (head cut off) there is a nervous reflex that causes random jerking and flopping for a few seconds. This was a common sight to anyone that raised and harvested their own chickens- and became an expression for someone engaged in a panicky unproductive movement.

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