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Utah police help ducklings cross road

LAYTON, Utah (AP) — It wasn't chickens that were crossing the road. It was a mother duck and 10 ducklings and the road was Interstate 15.


Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Chris Simmons slowed traffic and herded the ducks, which were waddling south in the northbound lane, to the highway's grassy median. But five of the ducklings slipped through a storm grate and Davis County Animal Control officers joined the Friday rescue.


Officers Ashley Langford and Brandie Stanley used tongs to get two of the ducklings out, but the others headed deep inside the pipe that runs under I-15.


They duct-taped a small net to the tongs and then waited for more than two hours before each little duckling eventually wandered from the pipe within reach of the net.


The ducklings were placed in a pet carrier and the mother in a separate crate. All were taken to a new home -- away from the highway -- at Layton Commons Park.


"We released the baby ducks first, then their mom. They all dashed to the pond," Langford said. "It was a great reunion."


 


**this is such a cute story. there were no pics, but i can only image.....



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I bet the communters were pissed that ducks were holding up traffic

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Isn't there a hotel in Memphis that allows ducks to cross the street once or twice a day?

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Buttercup wrote:

Isn't there a hotel in Memphis that allows ducks to cross the street once or twice a day?
It is more than that, the ducks live in the penthouse and are escorted down every day by the concirgne(sp)[ fancy bellboy]

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You're right, and I can't think of the name of the hotel. Does anyone know? I think it begins with an "O."

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You're right, and I can't think of the name of the hotel. Does anyone know? I think it begins with an "O."
The peabody?

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Plush wrote:

Buttercup wrote: You're right, and I can't think of the name of the hotel. Does anyone know? I think it begins with an "O." The peabody?

That's the place.


 


http://www.beans-around-the-world.com/peabody.html


 


 



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Thanks, Operator & Smick! I guess "O" is close to "P," haha.

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Buttercup wrote:

You're right, and I can't think of the name of the hotel. Does anyone know? I think it begins with an "O."


It is called the Peabody 


 


The ducks are escorted down from their Penthouse and walk thru the lobby on a red carpet where they swim the day away in the lobby's fountain. Then they are escorted back in the elevator to their lofty home



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texaschickeee wrote:

Utah police help ducklings cross road LAYTON, Utah (AP) — It wasn't chickens that were crossing the road. It was a mother duck and 10 ducklings and the road was Interstate 15. Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Chris Simmons slowed traffic and herded the ducks, which were waddling south in the northbound lane, to the highway's grassy median. But five of the ducklings slipped through a storm grate and Davis County Animal Control officers joined the Friday rescue. Officers Ashley Langford and Brandie Stanley used tongs to get two of the ducklings out, but the others headed deep inside the pipe that runs under I-15. They duct-taped a small net to the tongs and then waited for more than two hours before each little duckling eventually wandered from the pipe within reach of the net. The ducklings were placed in a pet carrier and the mother in a separate crate. All were taken to a new home -- away from the highway -- at Layton Commons Park. "We released the baby ducks first, then their mom. They all dashed to the pond," Langford said. "It was a great reunion."   **this is such a cute story. there were no pics, but i can only image.....
I think I saw this on TV news but not sure where.

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Heres a pic I found of them on line




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