WV1K: Hyannis mother duck to be investigated by Massachusetts DCF

Monday, May 30, 2011

Hyannis mother duck to be investigated by Massachusetts DCF

The Cape Cod Times reports that yesterday, a mother duck lost her ducklings in a drain.

A police officer:

who happened to be driving through the Cape Cod Times rear parking lot about 3 p.m. just as the fire department received a call that a frantic mother duck was quacking as she waddle-raced in circles around a storm drain in the parking lot. Eight feet down, at the bottom of the drain, were 10 equally frantic and peeping baby mallards.

In light of the media attention given to the event, the Department of Children and Families (DCF) has decided to launch an investigation of the mother duck's parenting skills and possible alcohol abuse, seen on camera.

Not only did the mother duck lose her children down a drain and require rescue, she was utterly inept at parenting them right in front of rescue workers.

The video begins as the mother duck is restrained off camera by officers but can be heard being uncooperative and quacking.

The mother duck can be seen aimlessly wandering along a chain link fence, walking into a post, weaving and kicking a beer can as she stumbles along after the rescue.

She then endangered her ducklings by heading right into traffic:

The reunited family didn't pause before waddling in a line toward Old Colony Way, and into more trouble...

Resembling every bit of Officer Michael in the beloved children's classic published in 1941, he nosed his cruiser through traffic to reach the intersection of Old Colony Way and South Street, where he blocked oncoming traffic with his vehicle before popping out of the car to herd the ducks to safety. The mallard family waddled across Old Colony Way without hesitation.

People sitting outside the senior housing complex on the corner watched with amazement as the duck and ducklings padded through their parking lot. But now it was the senior citizens who eagerly stopped traffic on South Street before Sweeney could get his cruiser in place there.

The ducks kept moving, now on a predictable course toward Hyannis Harbor.

The mother duck at this point was obviously attempting to flee the scene given the media coverage, but because of the beer can seen in the video, was unable to function properly as a parent.

Within minutes, they were at the water's edge, but one last impediment remained: The mother hopped on a concrete barrier about a foot high before flying 10 feet below into the water. Her tiny ducklings could not manage the 12-inch jump to the top of the barrier without assistance. So Sweeney scooped them up one by one as onlookers applauded.

We can only hope this mother duck gets the help she needs, although given her lack of a permanent address, it isn't looking good.

Truly the important news of our day, as opposed to stabbings in Brewster that go unreported.

SPQR

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This blog is written in the unvarnished truth by an Ottaviano. That's Octavianus, Octavian, Octavius, Octavia, Octavii... some intel nit wit keeps editing the commonly used Wikipedia as Google and Youtube delinks Ottaviano and Octavianus, etc, out of their abject fear of real history. Now they've shoved Cardinal Ottaviani who worked with the OSS and Martin S. Quigley to the back of the searches too. Their goal is to throw off any casual looker seeking to confirm this. It's not the politically correct nonsense of a Globalist publishing house with a post-WWII agenda of anti-Roman, anti-Italian, and anti-Goyim lies.

I graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors in History from Trinity College and needed only a second thesis or exam to get the B.A. in Political Science or International Relations. I was oddly told that they were "redundant" even though many now get both. I then refused to become a sock puppet like others are, and was maimed on purpose to a near heart transplant, nerve damage, and internal bleeding by a bunch of Globalist government paranoids acting through Merck. Their Germanic and Jewish ancestors rioted against my family in Rome with this purpose, assassinated lawful Emperors and defiled the Mausoleum of Augustus in Rome. Stop believing what you were conditioned to think out of post WWII guilt. Nero didn't burn Rome; the fiddle they now say he played wasn't invented until the 16th century, and Nero was assassinated by their ancestors ending our rule. An unlawful coup took hold in 476 and continues unchallenged.

After all of that, on 31 May 2008, my 62 year old father dropped dead in front of me as two fighters hundreds of miles from their base flew over. Connecticut politicians Richard Blumenthal, Joe Courtney and my father's student Susan Bysiewicz held up both the ambulance and AED which should have been 1000 feet away for their own paranoid protection. That left my mother with $62 a month and no pension. You bet it was retaliation by the people who maimed me that I now attack, but hadn't uttered a word about until after that.

I'm also a ham radio operator, but most of the new hams are incompetent un-opinionated fake emergency responder mush mouths since they dropped the IQ test.

Benjamin Disraeli

"There is in Italy a power which we seldom mention in this House ... I mean the secret societies.... It is useless to deny, because it is impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe--the whole of Italy and France and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries--is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superficies of the earth is now being covered with railroads. And what are their objects? They do not attempt to conceal them. They do not want constitutional government; they do not want ameliorated institutions ... they want to change the tenure of land, to drive out the present owners of the soil and to put an end to ecclesiastical establishments. Some of them may go further...."

in the House of Commons, July 14, 1856

Nicolo Machiavelli

"Upon this a question arises: whether it be better to be loved than feared or feared than loved? It may be answered that one should wish to be both, but, because it is difficult to unite them in one person, is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. Because this is to be asserted in general of men, that they are ungrateful, fickle, false, cowardly, covetous, and as long as you succeed they are yours entirely; they will offer you their blood, property, life and children, as is said above, when the need is far distant; but when it approaches they turn against you."

John Locke

"but where no such appeal is, as in the state of nature, for want of positive laws, and judges with authority to appeal to, the state of war once begun, continues, with a right to the innocent party to destroy the other whenever he can, until the aggressor offers peace, and desires reconciliation on such terms as may repair any wrongs he has already done, and secure the innocent for the future; nay, where an appeal to the law, and constituted judges, lies open, but the remedy is denied by a manifest perverting of justice, and a barefaced wresting of the laws to protect or indemnify the violence or injuries of some men, or party of men, there it is hard to imagine any thing but a state of war: for wherever violence is used, and injury done, though by hands appointed to administer justice, it is still violence and injury, however coloured with the name, pretences, or forms of law, the end whereof being to protect and redress the innocent, by an unbiassed application of it, to all who are under it; wherever that is not bona fide done, war is made upon the sufferers, who having no appeal on earth to right them, they are left to the only remedy in such cases, an appeal to heaven."

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MR. MAXIM," asked New Haven Carriage-Maker William Hooker Atwood in 1896, "do you want this carriage to look like a Western buggy-maker's job or do you want it to be a gentleman's carriage?" Answered Hiram Percy Maxim, builder of the Mark I Electric Phaeton: "Like a gentleman's carriage, Mr. Atwood." For almost half a century, the U.S. automobile was indeed a "gentleman's carriage," built for men and bought on the basis of its mechanical excellence, not its sculptured lines or pleasing colors.