now THERE is a person who is compassionate about wild life.
good on ya mate.
(my feel good news thread of the day)
It isn’t only about the animals, dangerous chaos could have resulted from them getting hit by cars.
I have seen a CHP car do the tactic to close down Interstate 8 and it was impressive, although in this case I don’t know how it would have been done since the ducks were already there and would have required a quick on the spot shutdown rather than the increasingly wider all lanes weaving and decreasing speed maneuver that I had witnessed.
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Was driving up a canyon road in CA once and traffic was stopped.
Found out it was for a tarantula family crossing it.
Really funky to watch.
I once did something like this on a suburban arterial. Was stopped first at a light near the community college, a bunch of geese and goslings started crossing in front of me. Most made it across before the light changed, but a goose or two and a few goslings were still in the road or the wrong side of the road.
I threw on my flashers, stopped traffic, and got the rest of the flock across the road to the main group. Got an ovation from 8-10 students waiting at a bus stop about 40 yards away.
I once stopped traffic on a four-lane road to help walk a full-grown swan across the street that kept stepping into traffic and then going back onto the curb. Damn thing was taller than me. Drivers were very cooperative. This was before cell phone cameras became ubiquitous. Thank goodness for that.