Posted on 08/12/2005 12:52:13 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A car wash in the South Bay is offering a reward for the identification of a man who deliberately ran over and killed 10 of the ducks that have been an attraction at the business for years.
A grainy surveillance tape at the Delta Queen Classic Car Wash -- a “theme” wash shaped like a Mississippi riverboat -- shows a man in his late teens or early 20s driving through the parking lot three or four times, aiming for the animals and running them down.
“It’s sickening,” said Chris Foley, a manager at the business, popular for its duck pond and gift shop and located at 981 E. Hamilton Ave. in Campbell.
The incident happened about 12:30 a.m. on Aug. 5 and at first was kept quiet by managers who hoped the driver would return so they could catch him.
Many of the ducks are descendants of a pair named Cheese and Quackers, a gift to the car wash owners from a customer in 1972. About 15 remained after last Friday’s rampage.
Foley said employees turned to the surveillance video after he noticed the dead ducks in the parking lot when he arrived at work. At first, he suspected a careless garbage truck driver, but looking at the tape, he saw that the birds were dead when the garbage truck pulled in that morning.
Rewinding the tape further, he discovered the killer driving a red, two-door Acura Integra with what looked to be a vanity license plate and a parking sticker in the back window. The film is too blurry to make out the plate, so the car wash is asking for the public’s help in identifying the driver.
The car wash is offering a $200 reward for information in the attack, which also is being investigated by Campbell police.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
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What a fowl deed!
Proof that there are quacks everywhere.....
Hmmm... Gives new meaning to the term "pressed duck".
This happened a few years ago her in RI.
"Aflat!"
:*(
If they catch the guy hope they dress him up in a duck suit and force him to cross a freeway.
cudda been worse
it cudda been..............
CAT JUGGLING !
Sounds like another demented PETA "rescue" putting the captive ducks out of their misery. Isn't that the logic behind their taking and killing dogs from the pound? Alternate theory is that perp is covering another animal crime. Ewwwwwwwwwww.
BTTT.... B@astard...
...just read the link....
Don't know if I have ever read anything like it.
...Foley described the film: “He runs over two ducks and then goes out on the street, makes a U-turn, runs over the ducks again, goes down the lane between the back side of the wash and restaurant where a bunch of ducks are sitting and plows right through them.”
The man then got out of his car and started flushing out the surviving ducks, many of them ducklings, from the bushes. He grabbed a couple and either threw them at his car or into his car, Foley said....
They must have crapped on his car or something.... wow.... step back from the ducks...
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Yeah, I heard about this earlier today on KCBS.
Had to have something to listen to while my power was out. < |:(~
Wow, you got an actual picture. I have been to that place before, but I don't remember the ducks.
What a major jerk...
I should like very much to beat the snot out of the loser.
I should like it above all things.
If you read the whole article, you'll see he kept going back and even got out of his car. Psycho.
This makes me sad. I see those ducks when I go into the neighboring Spoons restaurant.
On a completely unrelated note, I've got raccoons in my neighborhood now. One was looking through my screen door last night. Sure got my cats (and mine) attentions.
I'm such a soft touch that I can't read much without getting angry and teary at the same time.
Yeah, he's a psycho.
It's pretty disturbing. I go by there all the time too.
This is pretty sad. I've been to that car wash many a time and watching the ducks was always fun and made the time go by quickly. I know that the kids really enjoy seeing the ducks, too.
I hope they get this guy and make him pay, Big Time.
What is it with people? I mean, accidently backing over a duck is one thing, but running them down on purpose is crazy. Psycho on the lose, one of many. I hope they catch him.
Agreed. It's only a matter of time before he's commiting crimes on humans, if he already hasn't.
Thanks for the ping. I just saw this on Fox News. I suspect that the weirdness of people like this isn't only directed at helpless animals. I steer clear of his type.
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