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Make Way for Ducklings, Dammit

  • May. 1st, 2008 at 2:54 PM
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This is freakin’ adorable. An off-duty cop used his patrol car to stop 3 lanes of traffic … in order to help a mother duck and a row of ducklings cross the highway. He didn’t know he was being watched by a State Department of Transportation camera.

For the impatient: fast-forward it to about 55 seconds.

Warm the burly, cobwebbed cockles of your stone-cold heart with the full story, available here.

[crossposted to/from my website.]

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[info]j_cheney wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 07:58 pm (UTC)
That is so cute....I kept reading to figure out what he'd be charged with.
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[info]cmpriest wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:01 pm (UTC)
Haha! I did the same thing, but no -- everyone seems pretty happy about it. I'm sure there are some duck-haters someplace who'll file a complaint, but overall, I think this guy's gained good karma for the next ten years :)
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[info]terracinque wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:08 pm (UTC)
I also took it for granted he'd get in trouble over it. These are cynical times.
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[info]mandywriter wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:05 pm (UTC)
OH, SO CUTE! Thanks for sharing...this guy is local for me, on the roads my hubby drives to get to work! How cool! I loved it, i wanted to cheer as well.

Too bad that other car that stopped gets no kudos...it sat and blocked traffic too!
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[info]cmpriest wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:06 pm (UTC)
Agreed. I thought it was great that the car in the next lane over also halted -- even before the cop made him/her. :)
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[info]arkady wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:08 pm (UTC)
That's so incredibly cute and sweet. :-D
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[info]cmpriest wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:25 pm (UTC)
Agreed most heartily :)
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[info]dragonet2 wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:16 pm (UTC)
Saw that
on the TV at the DMV while I was (very briefly) waiting my turn to replace Dr. P's stolen license plates. It is very sweet. At first when I saw the police officer's car, I thought, "oh, shit, someone's being an impatient..." and then realized what he was doing.
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[info]naamah_darling wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:23 pm (UTC)
Hooray for ducklings!

Someone on my f-list recently witnessed a non-cop person in a big SUV (or some such) escort ducklings out of a McDonald's parking lot and across a road in much the same way.

I love stories like this.
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[info]cmpriest wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:26 pm (UTC)
Me too :) Especially because I used to get dirty looks for stopping in the road to move turtles and the like when I lived in Tennessee; and occasionally I would wish I had a cop light -- just to make it easier to be the critter patrol :)
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[info]silent_ic_river wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:23 pm (UTC)
Total Win!
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[info]cynthia1960 wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 08:54 pm (UTC)
Oh, this is great. I'm glad he didn't get in trouble for this.
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[info]conducts wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 09:15 pm (UTC)
...and SQUEEEEEE!

I ♥ cops like that.
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[info]katatomic wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 09:19 pm (UTC)
Awww... how could anyone get in trouble for that? He could always say they represented a hazard to traffic and he was just... expediting the avoidance of accidents.

Hurray for the cop and his duckling-mobile!
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[info]mizkit wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 09:32 pm (UTC)
That just makes the world a little bit better of a place today. *beams*
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[info]delathi wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 09:44 pm (UTC)
If I were on the road behind him an not knowing of the ducklings, I'da been pissed at the stoppage. Were I to know about the duckies, I'da been all kinds of "Awww..."

Edited at 2008-05-01 09:45 pm (UTC)
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[info]silveradept wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 10:40 pm (UTC)
I was waiting, much like the comment above, to see whether or not the officer got in trouble for helping the ducks cross the highway. That there hasn't been any negative consequences is almost as happy an ending as the ducks got.
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[info]illuminated_sin wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 10:44 pm (UTC)
For some reason I saw the wrong video. On the regular "friends page" view it's a video of a blond woman. When I click "read comments" the right video comes up. o_O I wonder what that's about?
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[info]lalam wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 10:51 pm (UTC)
Growing up in Boston, Make Way for Ducklings, by Robert McCloskey is perhaps one of my favorite books ever. I can read it over and over again, by myself or to my children.

But this video is so heartwarming and SO reminiscent!
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[info]neverless wrote:
May. 1st, 2008 10:59 pm (UTC)
Restores my faith in cops...so cute ;.;
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[info]namedphoenix wrote:
May. 2nd, 2008 01:22 am (UTC)
OH MY GOD. I CAN'T BREATHE FROM THE CUTE.
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[info]door wrote:
May. 2nd, 2008 02:13 am (UTC)
Aw! My faith in law enforcement has been somewhat renewed! Too cute.
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[info]anam_cara_ wrote:
May. 2nd, 2008 02:52 am (UTC)
That is so sweet and uplifting!
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[info]rowenablue wrote:
May. 2nd, 2008 05:30 am (UTC)
like others have commented, i was reading the article to see how he was punished for his actions. how awesome that he's being praised for them.
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[info]mal wrote:
May. 2nd, 2008 04:46 pm (UTC)
That is awesome. _Make Way for Ducklings_ was one of my favorite stories when I was little. I've just sent this off to my mom :)
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