Was the duck really alive or dead, before sombody opened the refrigerator to observe the duck?
This reminds me of the news story I saw last year–too lazy to dig up a link so BELIEVE WITH CAUTION!–of a cow who ran away from a slaughterhouse.
Of course the cow was caught, and of course she wasn’t made into meat loaf.
I realize, as with the OP’s story, that there’s a huge amount of hypocrisy in it, but human nature dictates that we applaud any being who defies the odds and fights with fate.
IOW, if a cow is plucky enough to run away from a slaughterhouse, or a duck is stubborn enough to survive being shot and stuffed in a fridge for a couple days, who can help cheering for them? We’re the same people who grew up watching Disney movies. If we can identify with it, we want to save it.
Kinda like the President, pardoning one turkey a year for Thanksgiving. How silly and kinda morbid a tradition is THAT, anyway?
And yet I always find it kind of cute.
I’m just as absurd and silly as the rest of the country.
I say GO DUCK GO!
As a big fan and over-and-over watcher of sci-fi flicks, I couldn’t help thinking of the scene in the greenhouse in the 1951 version of The Thing when I read this.
Your father wasn’t a giant carrot by any chance, was he?
I personally would have eaten the duck anyway. Any duck that was that perseverant must be delicious when cooked up Peking style with some pancakes. Mmmm, hard to kill peking duck…
Every once in a while there’ll be an incident like this, which is a bit worse than the duck story.
Obviously you’ve never searched for snacks at the back of our refrigerator. :dubious:
Sure it wasn’t a phoenix?
Only if it had already been cooked.
Hah! I didn’t realize until after I’d heard about this story a couple times that it happened in my town. And the author ain’t kidding about those muscovy ducks. They’re some crazy aggressive quackers. I go jogging at Lake Ella every weekend and it’s like an obstacle course.
No. Why would you think that?
Well, personally, I’m just glad it wasn’t Duck Duck Goose or Duckster that was stuck in the fridge for two days…