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Duck, duck, CAR! Driver runs over mother bird and her ducklings as they cross a road - but miraculously they all survive
UK Daily Mail ^ | May 5, 2020 | Luke Andrews

Posted on 05/05/2020 9:32:28 AM PDT by C19fan

A mother duck and her eleven ducklings had a very lucky escape after they were run over by a motorist while crossing a highway. Footage shows the shocked parent bird flap into the air as the vehicle mows over her brood in Fort Worth, Texas, before gathering up her unhurt ducklings and continuing with the perilous crossing. A bystander can be heard shouting moments before the car hits: 'Mother duck, where's your yellow safety vest?'

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TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: closecall; ducks
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Thankfully the driver was caught and is now facing charges.
1 posted on 05/05/2020 9:32:28 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats animals.


2 posted on 05/05/2020 9:37:55 AM PDT by Spruce
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To: C19fan
Something that still pisses me off some 20 years later: I was behind a pickup truck that deliberately ran over a squirrel in the street.

Yeah, it was "just a squirrel", a "rodent", a "tree rat", but NORMAL people don't do stuff like that.

I say this as one who has hunted and eaten many squirrels. You don't just run over them in the street.

3 posted on 05/05/2020 9:40:27 AM PDT by real saxophonist (If you don't have a gun, sell some toilet paper, and go buy a gun. - Colion Noir)
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To: C19fan

No he wasn’t. Read the article for a change.


4 posted on 05/05/2020 9:45:57 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: Spruce
You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats animals.

Yes, you can. And, you can tell a lot about people when you learn they hold animals in higher regard than people. THAT is a really dangerous sign.

5 posted on 05/05/2020 9:48:55 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: C19fan

Amazing how some of you folks on here are all for people being charged over animal issues and say absolutely nothing about Democrats and the media destroying the economy of the nation and ruining the lives of millions of PEOPLE. Now, THAT is telling.


6 posted on 05/05/2020 9:50:13 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: real saxophonist

I find the easiest way to miss a squirrel is to aim for him. He’ll be somewhere else by the time you get to him. The only time I’ve hit them was when I was trying to miss.


7 posted on 05/05/2020 9:51:07 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Parachutes are only anecdotally effective due to the lack of significant double blind testing.)
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To: C19fan

Fine those ducks for violating social distancing guidelines.


8 posted on 05/05/2020 9:51:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Good thing they had AFLAC


9 posted on 05/05/2020 9:52:27 AM PDT by Bob434
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I think the meaning of run over and mowed over need to be addressed.

It seems a car went over the ducks but didn’t mow them down or run them over.


10 posted on 05/05/2020 9:53:09 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: KarlInOhio
Get a squirrel in a tree.
You move to the first side, he moves to the other side.
You move to the other side, he moves to the first side.

You move to the first side, he moves to the other side.

You then take your jacket and drape it over whatever is handy, a bush or small tree.
Then you move to the other side.
Squirrel moves to the first side, sees the jacket and thinks it's a human, so he moves back to the other side, where you are. BAM!

11 posted on 05/05/2020 10:03:29 AM PDT by real saxophonist (If you don't have a gun, sell some toilet paper, and go buy a gun. - Colion Noir)
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To: Spruce

You can tell a lot about a man by how he treats animals.

Amen! Too bad those that I call out for being so blind and stupid as well as moronic on some sights don’t really know just what a nice person I really am and I’m married to a man that treats our babies better than ourselves.....;)


12 posted on 05/05/2020 10:06:22 AM PDT by Dawgreg
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Hang on... Mother flew away and ducklings unhurt?

Maybe the driver was trying to hit them. Or...maybe the driver was trying to straddle them with the tires—missing them? Ducklings can’t fly. They would probably just hug the pavement, so the car would go over them. Mother would probably fly off and certainly would if the driver slowed.

I dunno. Just sayin’.


13 posted on 05/05/2020 10:16:28 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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Saw the video. Not nice. Brood is lucky.


14 posted on 05/05/2020 10:18:58 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: real saxophonist

I almost hit a squirrel once......I ended up driving across two lawns and a garden before it finally ran up a tree........


15 posted on 05/05/2020 10:20:19 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
say absolutely nothing about Democrats and the media destroying the economy of the nation and ruining the lives of millions of PEOPLE. Now, THAT is telling.

We save those comments for the hundreds of threads dealing directly with that subject........

We don't come to your economy/covid 19 threads and pollute them with talk about baby ducks so don't come here and pollute ours whining about the economy.........

16 posted on 05/05/2020 10:23:43 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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I have ‘always’ said I want to ‘go’ peacefully, in my sleep.

Just like my Aunt Lizzy, not the girls in the backseat all screaming when she went over the cliff.


17 posted on 05/05/2020 10:24:10 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: C19fan

A lot of people hate Muscovy ducks but I like them, their favorite food is termites and they go crazy trying to snap the termites up when the destructive bugs are in the flight stage streaming out of the ground to mate.


18 posted on 05/05/2020 10:27:59 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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Those must be Trump ducks, the Democrats keep trying to mow him over to no avail.


19 posted on 05/05/2020 10:29:21 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa

lol


20 posted on 05/05/2020 10:32:53 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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