Posted on 03/13/2021 8:04:09 AM PST by BenLurkin
Brent Braaten of Halifax is now in possession of a taxidermic three-headed duckling and he has no idea why.
It arrived in the mail last week in an unassuming cardboard box that sat on his table unopened for hours because he figured it was a Pilates ball he'd ordered online. It wasn't.
"I tore away at the plastic and packaging and then one of the duckling's faces emerged and I immediately sort of jumped back," he told CBC Radio's Mainstreet.
"When I gained the courage to go back to the box and dig a little bit further, I noticed it wasn't just one head, but there were three duckling faces staring back at me."
The package is addressed to Braaten with a return address in China, so he's certain the duck delivery wasn't a mail mix-up.
The only clue contained in the package is an email address. Braaten sent a message to the address but didn't receive many answers.
"They didn't quite understand what I was asking. They wanted to know if I wanted to buy something, and so I asked for more information, but they haven't gotten back to me yet," he said.
Some digging online also revealed the name on the email address matches the name of a Chinese zoologist who appears to be well-known for his work preserving larger animals like elephants and giraffes.
"I really hope that I do find out who sent it to me," Braaten said. "I figure it's either a friend who really likes the idea of giving me a mystery or it's an enemy who's trying to send a cursed object to me."
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Now that’s disturbing.
I wonder what the person expecting a three headed duckling in the mail got.
“When I gained the courage to go back to the box and dig a little bit further, I noticed it wasn’t just one head, but there were three duckling faces staring back at me.”
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Is a three-headed duck in the mail a message anything like a horse-head in bed?
Maybe a Trojan Horse. Lots of tech inside it possibly.
It’s a duckling. Albeit with three heads....how large can it be? A little creepy maybe...but that would go one the shelf in the family room. Talk about a conversation starter.
It's a Nova Scotia thing...gets down right serious when it's a three headed lobster...make sure your will is in order then. ;>)
Just wait until one of those shows up in the mail.
Must have been born a few miles downstream of a DuPont Chemical Plant.
“It’s a Sicilian Message”
Pretty soon he’ll get the bill.
that’s a good one!
Hey ducky, do you see him?
Who?
Luca!
What kind of man uses a Pilates ball??
“He figured it was a Pilates ball he’d ordered online”
Somewhere in China, there’s a warehouse worker who doesn’t know the difference between a Pilates ball and a three headed duck.
And we’re supposed to be scared of them?
Why not ask the zoologist if he ever himself or knew of a taxidermist who put together a three-headed duckling?
Well ain’t that just ducky
Sounds like the start of a novel.
Why do I feel like something bad happens next?
A Pilates ball?
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