Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Somebody Get this Freakin' Duck Away From Me!!
It's summer. I suffer from chronic laziness. Shoot me.
Police hunt for man who ran over car wash ducks
ASSOCIATED PRESS
4:20 p.m. August 12, 2005
CAMPBELL – When managers of a local car wash arrived for work recently they were stunned to discover a gruesome scene – the mangled bodies of ten ducks, favorites of the community who lived in a nearby pond.
When they turned to security cameras at the Delta Queen Classic Car Wash, the managers discovered the culprit. A man in a red two-door Acura is seen driving over the ducks five our six times. The grainy images also show him climbing out of the car several times to chase the birds, and apparently pick up one or two of them and slam them against the car.
"These ducks are an icon in Campbell – everyone knows these ducks," said Campbell police Captain Russ Patterson. "For someone to purposely, willfully do this – there's no reason for it."
Unfortunately, the car's license plate was not clearly captured on the tape during the incident which occurred shortly after midnight August 5. Car wash manager Mike Davis said it appeared to be a California vanity plate, but the characters were unreadable.
Davis said as many as 15 ducks survived the attack. Ducks have lived at the Delta Queen pond since 1972, when customers dropped off a pair named Cheese and Quackers. The pair went on to produce many offspring.
Police are searching for the driver, who appears to be in his late teens or early 20s, with short, dark brown hair. He was wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans.
Patterson said officers were distributing a still photo of the car, hoping that people might recognize it or could identify the license plate. The Delta Queen has also released portions of the security video.
2:54 PM
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