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Posted on 04/17/2010 10:43:19 PM PDT by nickcarraway
It was springtime, when ducks usually are headed north. But suddenly Saturday, the ducks ran amok. In two separate incidents, an intrepid California Highway Patrol officer came to the rescue of ducks attempting to waddle across freeways in the South Bay, in defiance of the laws of nature and the California Vehicle Code.
Nine fuzzy yellow ducklings were spotted heading southbound down the center divide of Interstate 880 near Milpitas Saturday morning, when Officer Ryan Nelson — something of a fledgling himself, in his first full year with the CHP — rolled onto the scene in his patrol car. When veteran officer Lawrence Colon spotted Nelson attempting to herd the ducks along the median between speeding cars and 18-wheelers, he ran a traffic break, bringing one of the Bay Area's busiest freeways to a halt. As Nelson led his chirping charges in a line dance across the pavement, stampeding semis sat and simmered. And then, almost as one, people rolled their windows down and began to applaud. "Everyone loved it," Nelson said. "All these hundreds of cars were stopped, and all these little chicks go walking by."
"He got the mother over to the shoulder," Colon said, "but unfortunately there was a wall there. He couldn't just pick the mother up and move her because the chicks wouldn't follow, so he had to walk them all the way back to where the wall actually starts." Nelson led his little parade for a
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It’s a duck-eat-duck world in the Bay Area.
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/sarcastic humor
One good Hippo on patrol = Problem Solved
Lying In Wait...
To this day, the Campbell duck-murder has never been caught.
Bet that rookie catches it from the guys and gals.
Nice work, btw. herding ducks ain’t easy.
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