BFD. Some people like foie gras, others like live ducks.
This Pennsylvania man is facing a $500 daily fine from his betters in government because he has a few ducks.
Are ducks a real public hazard? As far as I know, they don't wake anyone up. I'd rather have a duck next door than some breeds of dog.
The neighbours like the little ducks.
How can America be free when an individual's life can be so greatly influenced by some bureaucrat waving his stack of tickets for whopper fines?
The owner says:
“The neighbor kids come over and I'll let them pet them,” he said. “The elderly neighbor lady next door talks to them when she's outside.”
"The ducks' pen is fenced in with a lock. It is topped with a predator screen because a redtail hawk is known to visit the area, Kistler said."
"At night, the ducks retire to a wooden house inside the pen."
Sounds pretty civilized to me.
Mark these words:
Theodore Dalrymple theorizes that the more civilized the person and the less likely that they are guilty of any serious offence, the more strongly officialdom punishes them. Serious criminals are excused and never properly punished-so as not to offend liberal sensibilities. But regular people who may have made a clerical error, or a mathematical error, or simply a mistake, will feel the full wrath of the "law" and the full wrath of any bureaucracy they have the misfortune of having to deal with. This is done to appease the liberal masses.
That is ABSOLUTELY the case.
