Posted on 07/27/2015 12:05:04 PM PDT by dennisw
No, genius. Read the story. He laughed with glee after he ran over the ducklings and then BACKED UP to do it again. That’s no accident. That’s sadistic cruelty.
He must have not been an officer. I did a tour in the security department of a naval base. One day I got a call to go to the base golf course, report of someone in a golf cart chasing ducks. The perp was drunk and had ran over and killed one duck before I stopped him. He turned out to be the executive officer of a ship. The security director sent him back to his ship without charges.
Actually, ducks don’t usually get run down by lawnmowers in the wild-and live relatively easy lives, like in the rural area I live in, where ducks are no different from chickens and guineas-they are kept for eggs and to eat by a lot of people.
The river is just a short walk down a hiking trail at the back the properties on this side of the road-people feed the “wild” ducks and they hang around, becoming free range food when someone wants roast duck. Perhaps that is what those people on Florida were doing-keeping a semi-free range food source.
But animal cruelty is animal cruelty-and people like that guy in the article are lacking in basic humanity-there are no excuses for his actions...
Been awhile since I saw that one!
you can get anything you want ... excepting Alice.
Muscovies breed like roaches in Florida. There’s a reason 15 to 20 chicks will be born at a time. Large fish eat them. Other birds eat them. Some will be hit by cars. A lot of times only one or two will make it to adulthood.
And unless a Muscovy is strictly raised on a farm the meat will taste like trash.
wth is WRONG with people?
I imagine he will do his time at a county jail or farmed out to a county jail in another jurisdiction. i would also imagine that he will be out on parole in about 90 days, if that.
+1
It sounds like safer duck habitat here than in Florida-we don’t have pythons, and there are no duck-eating fish in this river-no gators except in East Texas, either. Hawks nest in the woods by the river, and will grab a duck, but they will also grab anything smaller than they are, including domestic fowl that is unprotected-they are very fond of young peafowl, which a lot of people here keep as attractive watchbirds-and they are not overly bright...
We have Muscovy ducks around, but they are mostly the domesticated type, and rather large-even the free range ones-they don’t taste any different than any other duck to me, but I’m not a connoisseur-I only like it cooked on the grill-otherwise, it is greasy...
I have accidentally hit/run over/cut up a number of different animals with a lawnmower. Birds, ducks, snakes, rabbits among other animals make nests in tall grass. The nests are almost impossible to see until it’s too late.
I have been in an accident where a lady in front of me slammed on her brakes to avoid hitting a squirrel.
I will never intentionally injure or kill an animal.
But the safety of people are far more important that swerving to miss an animal on a highway.
If this guy killed the ducks intentionally, he has problems.
But jail time for the ducks????
BINGO!!!
Bend him.... he deserves the same treatment he gave. I mean that.
I will always hit the brakes to avoid an animal if I can. Some years ago, I was injured and nearly killed as a passenger in a small car when a deer ran in front of it and was hit-the driver was only doing 35 mph-glad it wasn’t 55. So when I see people being advised not to swerve/stop for animals on the road, I can only assume they don’t mean deer, hogs, etc-more than one person has been killed in a collision with a large animal like that-it is safer to try to avoid it...
I did, a$$wipe. http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/07/27/landscaper-gets-year-in-jail-for-running-over-ducklings-with-lawnmower/
no reference at all to backing up or laughing. What link are you looking it.
He ran over baby ducks with a lawnmower deliberately. He won’t do a year, but 30 days would be OK with me.
Great story. A while back I was living out in the boondocks. Friend had dogs that loved hunting rabbits. I found a long pair of rabbits ears. This is all that was left
Pythons aren’t native, but bass will eat ducklings, as will herons. We get hawks every now and then, too. It’s not unusual to see a momma with 16 ducklings show up a couple of days later with half that many.
I imagine that Muscovies in the true wild might taste OK, but the ones that live near people in Florida get into trash and I’ve heard that’s what they taste like.
Farm raised Muscovies are a delicacy. Thomas Jefferson raised them for food.
If this man did such a cruel thing on purpose he certainly deserves to go to prison.
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