Enough! Enough dogs in shredders or thrown into traffic. Enough cats attacking owners. Enough baby birds falling from trees (sorry Dreamer). Read this! Ducklings in Trouble, Mother Calls the Police VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - When a family of ducklings fell down a Vancouver sewer grate their mother did what any parent would do. She got help from a passing police officer. Vancouver police officer Ray Peterson admitted he was not sure what to make of the duck that grabbed him by the pant leg while he was on foot patrol on Wednesday evening in a neighborhood near the city's downtown. ``I though it was a bit goofy, so I shoved it away,'' Peterson told the Vancouver Sun newspaper. The mother duck persisted, grabbing Peterson's leg again when he tried to leave, and then waddling to a nearby sewer grate where she sat down and waited for him to follow and investigate. ``I went up to where the duck was lying and saw eight little babies in the water below,'' he said. Police said they removed the heavy metal grate with the help of a tow truck and used a vegetable strainer to lift the ducklings to safety. Mother and offspring then departed for a nearby pond. ------------------ It looks like a veteran can Be had.
AFLAC! ------------------ President of the CC.net Realist Club, everyone needs a dose of reality once in a while...
Hip hip hooray! What a great story! Intelligent duck communicates with police officer....HAHA!!!!! Woohoo!!! I heard the officer and duck got hitched and have a nice big family on a farm somewhere. ------------------ If the Rockets lose, then we all lose.
...I like animals, no infact I love them! ------------------ Rarely is the question asked: Guns kill squirrels than REDRUM to fools across the nation?
...and were later shot when Duck Season opened. ... ok, that was bad ------------------ "I'll tell you this, the older I get, the less I trust people. It's true. It's damn true." -- gr8-1 going through some growing pains.
Be kind to your web-footed friends, for a duck may be somebody's mother . . . ------------------ It was the time of the preacher, in the year of '01 Now the preachin' is over, and the lessons begun . . . [This message has been edited by Tolpatcsh Verkinder (edited July 15, 2001).]
DoD....it's funny how your post followed ROXRAN's....how fitting! ------------------ It looks like a veteran can Be had.
Bah! I want to hear seedy, underhanded stories, not this happy-go-lucky sappy stuff! ------------------ "Instruments are like women: After a while, you want to make love to another." - Nicolas Godin of the musical duo Air
