# Britain being invaded by plastic ducks **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 4, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324 "2006-08-04T14:07:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/1 "2006-08-04T14:07:25Z")
Here is the link: [Duck Armada](http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=17431895&method=full&siteid=62484&headline=wash-up--duck---name_page.html) (“Armada” shamefully stolen from a fellow LiveJournalist) > [@](#): > > AN “armada” of 10,000 yellow plastic ducks is about to land in Britain after an incredible 14-year journey across the oceans. > > The bathtime toys fell off a container ship in the Pacific in 1992 and, after drifting thousands of miles, are due to start washing up on our shores soon. 14 years! Wow! ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/2 "2006-08-04T14:10:46Z")
> [@](#): > > It is thought that at one stage about 10,000 of the ducks were thrown out of the circuit at its northernmost limit and in 1993 were sucked into the Bering Straits between Russia and the US. > \*\*There they became frozen in ice floes and slowly journeyed 2,000 miles to the North Pole, and then 4,000 miles south again to Nova Scotia on the other side of the US. \*\* --Bolding by **Bosda** > As the ice began to thaw the ducks floated 2,000 miles down the eastern seaboard of the US. They are now headed south and when they hit the Gulf Stream they will float another 3,000 miles across the Atlantic to Britain. :dubious: :dubious: :dubious: :dubious: I have certain doubts about this… ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/3 "2006-08-04T16:11:11Z")
Now we really need Sir Francis Drake. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/4 "2006-08-04T16:17:42Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Now we really need Sir Francis Drake. Very good! I can see him at the head of his own armada of ducks. FORWARD! ---
**Author:** ![934spe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/9/90db22/32.png) [@934spe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/934spe)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/5 "2006-08-04T19:37:49Z")
> [@Zebra](#): > > Now we really need Sir Francis Drake. Boo Hiss… It was funny though… ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/6 "2006-08-04T20:15:37Z")
\>\>An armada of 10,000 yellow plastic ducks is about to land in Britain … Oh no, not again. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/7 "2006-08-04T20:19:52Z")
Shouldn’t this story have a Tardis in it…? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/8 "2006-08-04T20:23:44Z")
Quack! You will comply, quack! Comply, quack, or be exterminated! Quack! QUACK! **QUACK!** (the Ducklecks, don’t you know …) ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/9 "2006-08-04T20:27:40Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > I have certain doubts about this… What’s to doubt? This is almost _exactly_ how Captain America spent the years between WWII and the 1960’s. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/10 "2006-08-04T20:30:02Z")
> [@Squink](#): > > What’s to doubt? This is almost _exactly_ how Captain America spent the years between WWII and the 1960’s. Are you suggesting he might have _trained_ these ducks during his time with them? We’re doomed. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/11 "2006-08-04T21:53:53Z")
I had a thread about this horde of ducks awhile back. According to one of the articles, the manufacturer was offering some kind of reward for anyone who found one washed up on the shore. Another said there were little tugboats and such among the ducks. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/12 "2006-08-04T22:24:40Z")
When they quack, will it echo? ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/13 "2006-08-04T22:30:11Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > When they quack, will it echo? Posts like this make the Baby Jesus gry. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/14 "2006-08-05T04:04:51Z")
Screw the ducks. I want the Legos. Is anyone tracking the progress of the Legos? ---
**Author:** ![FisherQueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/58f4c7/32.png) [@FisherQueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FisherQueen)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/15 "2006-08-05T11:12:14Z")
This story is useless without pictures. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2006, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/britain-being-invaded-by-plastic-ducks/367324/16 "2006-08-05T11:19:59Z")
[pictures](http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0731/p01s04-woeu.html)?