Ever since I hit a few ducklings on the freeway a while ago (some very loyal followers of this blog may remember the story from a previous blog I used to have), I haven’t lived it down. I suppose accidentally running over three ducklings is considered the height of evil because when I originally blogged about it, no-one commented. It was an eery silence that haunts me to this day.
Most people will risk life and limb to save some fuzzy, waddle-y birdies who are babies and want to follow their mother duck everywhere – even into oncoming traffic that is travelling at 100 kilometres an hour, while it is rainy.
I didn’t. And I have (almost) regretted the decision ever since.
At the time I comforted myself with the fact that a) I refused to eat chicken or other poultry for a fair while after that, and b) At least I didn’t kill the mother so she was alive and able to look after the surviving ducklings.
Anyway, this video was part of a Family Guy episode that was aired on Aussie telly a few days ago – basically Peter Griffin invents his own cartoon to pitch to the Fox 8 network and this is it:
When the hubby saw it he laughed so hard I thought he was going to fall off the couch. He just looked at me and pointed. And laughed.
Yes, my duck murdering days have become a running joke with quite a few people in my life.
If I say something on facebook and no-one has a good comeback, someone just has to say “quack” and everyone has a jolly old time!
*sigh*
OK, so a part of me realises my friends (and ever loving husband) are being quite hilarious. That in itself makes me a terrible terrible (but honest) person!
I hope my duckies got their soda in heaven 
hehehe, I still tell this story every time someone mentions ducks. And then I follow up with the ‘rescued’ bird story.
I think maybe they had left over bad karma from their previous lives. Or would have grown into adult evil genius ducks and you have secretly saved the world!
Well, that’s one sugar coatery way to look at my homicidal tendencies (or is that duckslaughter?) towards birds. Birds and me never really flocked together…I honestly have no idea why!!
hahaha, love family guy!! I would cry if i hit an animal….I almost hit an armadillo a few weeks ago but I managed to swerve. phew
awwwww… I never saw the original story – that must have been so tough, you didn’t really hae an option though.
I hope there’s a nice big lake for them all to grow up on… safely. =)
At least you’re entertaining people??
i am currently holding a MASSIVE spider hostage under a sink plunger… am starving it to death cos it would too messy to squish it to death!i check every morn to see if its dead and 3 days later its still alive!!!
take from tht wot you will
lol
I’ve heard of some pretty bad oh-my-gosh-I-accidentally-killed-an-animal/pet-stories. Actually my friends and I were just talking about them yesterday, but sharing them won’t make you feel much better huh? Stuff happens. Feel better. Sugary soda decays teeth. I hope they get juice in heaven.
Handi-quacks! That’s hilarious.
Although I have never hit an animal myself (I can’t drive) I feel bad when I run over dead hedgehog on my bike, so I can’t imagine how bad you must have felt hitting those ducklings
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Oh Lord, I love Family Guy. I thought I had seen every episode ever, but I don’t recognize this clip! Hilarious.
One time a cardinal flew right into my windshield. It was horrifying. I dodge squirrels in my neighborhood on an almost daily basis. When I was in college, squirrels would knock the power out y accidentally rying themselves in transformers. Ahhh, critters.