Thursday, October 30, 2008

I brake for ducks.....NOT!

I'm gonna let you folks work this one out in your head..... after you sort out the most poorly written headline on a non-story I ever saw.

N.J. Man Pleads Guilty To Running Over Baby Ducks
Witnesses Say Suspect Swerved Around Other Cars Waiting For The Ducklings To Pass


SOMERS POINT, N.J. (CBS/AP) ― A 20-year-old has pleaded guilty to needlessly killing an animal for running over some baby ducks in a Somers Point parking lot.

Steven Davey of Egg Harbor Township was fined more than $1,000. He can get some of that reduced by volunteering at an animal shelter.

An SPCA officer says Davey swerved around other cars that had stopped for the ducklings in August and ran over them.

Now then, color me cold -- but if I was driving down the highway and a couple of cars were just sitting there in my lane idling for no apparent reason, no traffic was coming from the other directions, I'd probably pull around to the left and pass them. And if, some unfortunate duckling jumped out in front of me, I reckon if I had to choose between wrecking my $40,000 car - or running over that 50¢ duckling, he'd sure be a dead duck!

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