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07-03-2009, 09:01 PM
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| |  My Oddest Sight of 2009...
Hi all,
A funny sight today...
I was on the bus this morning, caught up in slow-moving traffic in a residential built-up street. I happened to see a man on the pavement on the other side holding something under his arm. Curious to see what it was I saw that he was holding a dark object that I then assumed to be a cat and didn't really think anything more of it.
The bus started moving off slowly and as we levelled with him I saw that it was not a cat he was stroking at all... but holding a dark-coloured mallard  !!
A man, holding and stroking a mallard, in a busy street with no bodies of water in the area at all!! To say I wasn't expecting that is an understatement!
Any reasons that you could think of?
Take care,
Jason 
Last edited by Jason Green; 07-03-2009 at 09:04 PM.
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07-03-2009, 09:04 PM
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| | | Re: My Oddest Sight of 2009...
Was he wearing pajamas by any chance? Very strange indeed.  |
07-03-2009, 09:07 PM
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| | | Re: My Oddest Sight of 2009...
Just a duck-cuddler, doing his job? |
07-03-2009, 09:33 PM
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| | | Re: My Oddest Sight of 2009...
A duck rustler perhaps Without wishing to make or imply any racist comments, it's apparently (and allegedly  ) quite a common practice amongst some of our eastern European immigrants with all manner of wildfowl having disappeared from some inner city waterways
Jeff
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07-03-2009, 09:36 PM
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| | | Re: My Oddest Sight of 2009...
Me neither... but just as a general description of the male, I believe he was African. He was just stroking it from the head and down the neck, whilst the bird was obviously quite interested in looking around at his surroundings.
Last edited by Jason Green; 07-03-2009 at 09:38 PM.
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07-03-2009, 09:51 PM
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| | | Re: My Oddest Sight of 2009...
Quote:
Originally Posted by meta Menardi  just A Duck-cuddler, Doing His Job? | Good one 
Last edited by tWITCH; 07-03-2009 at 09:53 PM.
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07-03-2009, 09:57 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Derbyshire
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| | | Re: My Oddest Sight of 2009...
Well I was going to say it could be his pet, ducks get very tame and make wonderful pets. But it we can't rule out sunday lunch! |
07-03-2009, 10:03 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2008
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| | | Re: My Oddest Sight of 2009...
So some dude walking down the street looking er ... not Well'ard but Mal'ard. (that's like a really 'bad' hard type of dude, if you know your French )
Phoebe, that's really not a nice thing to say |
08-03-2009, 09:19 AM
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| | | Re: My Oddest Sight of 2009...
todays dinner i rekon
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08-03-2009, 09:37 AM
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| | | Re: My Oddest Sight of 2009...
A strange sight to see, Jason! Perhaps he had taken his pet duck for a walk and it had tired so he carried it home!  | | | |
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