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(WHIO) Sappy *Still* not tired of stories about baby ducklings being rescued from storm drains? No? Here's another one, then   (whiotv.com) divider line 32
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jebusfreak [TotalFark] 2009-05-16 07:59:25 PM  
i165.photobucket.com

After watching that video, that's the first thing that came to my mind.

 
Obnox [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-16 08:43:12 PM  
"Nelson and Cregar released the ducks in the area where their mother was last seen."

I won't say it, but I'm thinking it.

Oh, what the hell. Those little ducklings are DEAD!

DEAD, do you hear me? Dead little ducklings, seven in a row.

 
CorruptHardware 2009-05-16 10:22:50 PM  
But everyone who wasted their time feels better.

 
LittleJoeSF 2009-05-16 10:25:51 PM  
"Nelson and Cregar released the ducks in the area where their mother was last seen." And then, they were promptly eaten by a feral cat.

 
Alebak 2009-05-16 10:27:17 PM  
I will NEVER be tired of these stories.

/NEVER

 
eraser8 2009-05-16 10:27:59 PM  
Those little ducklings are going to grow up to be delicious.

 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark] 2009-05-16 10:29:16 PM  
Most baby ducklings die anyway, even with mommy duck and daddy duck close by.

I used to watch the annual crop of cute little ducks dwindle away at the Magic Kingdom every spring: mama duck would start off proudly with anywhere from 8 to 13 of the fuzzy little niblets, and even in the protected inner park ponds she'd be lucky to have two or 3 by migration season. Rats, cats and possums, and just plain starvation and poison from chlorine and insecticide finished the rest off.

Out on the Rivers of America, they just got lost, or swept away by the big boats. Sad, but that's life.

 
Software2 2009-05-16 10:33:52 PM  
TFA: Dayton police blocked off one lane of traffic while residents, and members of the media, brainstormed on how to get the ducklings out.

Your tax dollars at work! Sure, those cops could be out solving crime, but that takes effort and actually gets something done.

 
Necrosis 2009-05-16 10:36:08 PM  
Nelson and Cregar released the ducks in the area where their mother was last seen.

A couple people already continued this, but here was mine.

...but the mother was already gone, and the ducklings died all alone.

Baby ducks are incredibly cute, but like Gyrfalcon says, most don't make it. I've seen the same thing happen every year at my job where I'm around duck nesting areas. Nature can be pretty rough sometimes....

 
thelordofcheese 2009-05-16 10:37:02 PM  
Software2: TFA: Dayton police blocked off one lane of traffic while residents, and members of the media, brainstormed on how to get the ducklings out.

Your tax dollars at work! Sure, those cops could be out solving crime, but that takes effort and actually gets something done.


Without ducks we wouldn't have poop in our ponds or an activity in which our elderly could participate.

 
bingo the psych-o 2009-05-16 10:41:05 PM  
thelordofcheese: Software2: TFA: Dayton police blocked off one lane of traffic while residents, and members of the media, brainstormed on how to get the ducklings out.

Your tax dollars at work! Sure, those cops could be out solving crime, but that takes effort and actually gets something done.

Without ducks we wouldn't have poop in our ponds or an activity in which our elderly could participate.


Why can't the elderly poop in the pond as well? I don't see why we can't have it both ways.

 
Oznog 2009-05-16 10:43:12 PM  
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There goes God's plan to create a breed of superior ducks whose ducklings fear sewer grates and avoid them. Way to interfere.

 
URAPNIS 2009-05-16 10:44:20 PM  
bingo the psych-o:

Without ducks we wouldn't have poop in our ponds or an activity in which our elderly could participate.

Why can't the elderly poop in the pond as well? I don't see why we can't have it both ways.


You obviously haven't met my grandmother.

 
DSEILXYC [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-16 10:48:40 PM  
i41.tinypic.com

 
Elephantman 2009-05-16 10:50:38 PM  
Has Fark jumped the shark?
Is anyone even trying anymore?

 
PartyRob 2009-05-16 10:52:54 PM  
Elephantman: Has Fark jumped the shark?
Is anyone even trying anymore?

This.

 
thelordofcheese 2009-05-16 10:54:37 PM  
Elephantman: Has Fark jumped the shark?
Is anyone even trying anymore?


I had a green the other day, but it was a follow-up with little real importance and the headline was in a standard format that ended in a cliche. So no.

 
srewolf 2009-05-16 10:54:49 PM  
Ok, am I the only one who wanted to shoot the reporter? WTF is up with that affected newscaster speech? Why, why, why do local news reporters talk like retards?

 
IXI Jim IXI [TotalFark] 2009-05-16 11:09:18 PM  
thelordofcheese: Without ducks we wouldn't have poop in our ponds or an activity in which our elderly could participate.

The elderly poop in ponds?

 
Mentat [TotalFark] 2009-05-16 11:14:13 PM  
Gyrfalcon: Most baby ducklings die anyway, even with mommy duck and daddy duck close by.

I used to watch the annual crop of cute little ducks dwindle away at the Magic Kingdom every spring: mama duck would start off proudly with anywhere from 8 to 13 of the fuzzy little niblets, and even in the protected inner park ponds she'd be lucky to have two or 3 by migration season. Rats, cats and possums, and just plain starvation and poison from chlorine and insecticide finished the rest off.

Out on the Rivers of America, they just got lost, or swept away by the big boats. Sad, but that's life.


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OgreMagi 2009-05-16 11:32:43 PM  
I stopped counting the fresh batches of baby ducks around my apartment. It was too depressing seen one or two fewer of them each day.

 
bustle in my hedgerow 2009-05-16 11:34:38 PM  
cant deal with local newscasters

 
gund 2009-05-16 11:42:44 PM  
I believe in the philippines a delicacy involves cooking nearly hatched duck eggs. You then remove the shell and eat the half formed duckling.

 
solobarik 2009-05-17 12:15:13 AM  
DSEILXYC

Holy shiat, that's farking funny. Momma duck's like: WTF?!?

 
Bottomfeeder 2009-05-17 12:54:58 AM  
Baby ducklings? As opposed to what, adult ducklings?

/Dept. of Redundancy Dept.

 
MadAzza [TotalFark] 2009-05-17 01:04:50 AM  
gund: I believe in the philippines a delicacy involves cooking nearly hatched duck eggs. You then remove the shell and eat the half formed duckling.

Balut. Speaking as an American, I can say this about that: BARF

/been to the Philippines
//but they eat it where I live, too

 
Montuckian 2009-05-17 02:05:53 AM  
nice headline Capt. Kirk!

 
Vern 2009-05-17 03:13:25 AM  
Somewhere there's a very happy snake. I'd jump out of my car to help some baby snakes across a road before I'd help some ducks. I've never had a snake shiat on my shirt while I was raking leaves before.

 
ctt1wbw 2009-05-17 06:42:05 AM  
I think we need to sue the manufacturer of the gratings. They can make them smaller, surely. :)

 
MadAzza [TotalFark] 2009-05-17 08:08:02 AM  
ctt1wbw: I think we need to sue the manufacturer of the gratings. They can make them smaller, surely. :)

And stop calling me Shirley.

 
Epossumondas [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-05-17 10:49:16 AM  
IXI Jim IXI: thelordofcheese: Without ducks we wouldn't have poop in our ponds or an activity in which our elderly could participate.

The elderly poop in ponds?


Don't they make swimstyle Depends?

 
ctt1wbw 2009-05-17 06:00:21 PM  
MadAzza: ctt1wbw: I think we need to sue the manufacturer of the gratings. They can make them smaller, surely. :)

And stop calling me Shirley.


Looks like I picked the wrong week to save baby ducklings.

 
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