Hah, my Materials professor would tell that joke over and over again, but he used jet turbines and not windshields.
There was a segment on Mythbusters, but I forgot how it went. Their experiments are often very poorly designed, and I think this was one of the worst (I'm sure as an Engineer you appreciate this). I don't think they even used a windshield from a jet aircraft for the experiment.
I seem to recall the chicken penetrated the screen, whether thawed or frozen, and it was because they were using the windshield off a Cessna. Idiots. It's not
supposed to protect from something moving several hundred MPH.