Banker 'out' for a duck (or 12).....

**WereBo** · 05-18-2009, 07:06 PM

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Joel Armstrong is no duck connoisseur. The 43-year-old banker and father of two learned everything he knows about ducks through Google. But this Saturday, none of that mattered as he helped rescue a new family of ducklings.

For the past 35 days, Armstrong watched as a mother duck nested on a ledge outside his office window…two blocks from the Spokane River in Washington state. On Saturday morning, Armstrong arrived in town for the annual Lilac Festival parade. Seeing the newly hatched ducklings nervously pacing back and forth on the ledge, he knew they were stuck. Their mother stood waiting below, but the jump off the ledge was too far for the ducklings.

Armstrong hasn’t played baseball since grade school, but he stepped up to the plate ready to help. Standing below the ledge, he caught each duckling as they leapt into his waiting hands below. By the time it was over, a crowd had gathered for the parade. To the sound of cheers and applause, the mother duck led her ducklings to water.

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**sandman55** · 05-19-2009, 04:54 AM

I saw this thread and I thought it was about cricket

not that I am a cricket fan. I saw him catching the baby ducks on TV it was good he was there and he watched them all the way to the water

**WereBo** · 05-19-2009, 08:03 AM

..... That's where I 1st saw it, too

05-19-2009, 04:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
sandman55 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: May 2005 Location: Australia Posts: 5,524 OS: WinXP Pro SP3	Re: Banker 'out' for a duck (or 12)..... I saw this thread and I thought it was about cricket not that I am a cricket fan. I saw him catching the baby ducks on TV it was good he was there and he watched them all the way to the water __________________ Charlotte at the beach

05-19-2009, 08:03 AM	#3 (permalink)
WereBo Resident Village Idiot Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SE London, UK Posts: 14,454 OS: Win-7, XP-Pro SP3 My System	Re: Banker 'out' for a duck (or 12)..... ..... That's where I 1st saw it, too __________________ I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.