An animal rights activist was beaten with a duck by a Spanish woman defending one of the country's most bizarre and controversial festival traditions.Now, there's not a story you read about every day...
The man was whacked with the bird while he filmed the annual "duck chase" in the Catalonian seaside town of Roses, where every August ducks are thrown into the Mediterranean and then caught and brought back to the shore by swimmers.
People catch ducks? In water? I'm guessing this is cruel, even though the ducks have the advantage.
"Continue, continue. Continue to abuse, I am filming you. A little bit of empathy for the animals. They also have a life, like your children or your family," the man who was filming can be heard saying in a video of the incident released by animal rights group Animal Rescue Espana.
A duck's life is not precisely like a person's children or family. They're more like... dinner. Or weaselbait.
The footage shows a young woman wearing a white bathing suit attack the man with a duck -- holding it by the legs as she repeatedly lashes him with it.
I'da paid good money to see that. Yahoo didn't, unfortunately. They passed on the girly and went with a picture of some dumbasses being gored by a bull. This was a story about a guy who was gored by a duck.
As the attack goes on, animal rights activists gathered on the shore can be heard chanting, "You would not do that to your dog," before they were removed by police.
That'd depend on the size of the dog, wouldn't it? I can imagine an animal rights dumbass being whacked with a dachshund, maybe even an airdale.
Every year since 1918 about 50 ducks are thrown into the sea in the town north of Barcelona, with swimmers then racing in to catch them and bringing them ashore however they can.
I fail to see the cruelty. Those who can see the cruelty have never tried catching a duck in water.
But after Sunday's incident, the town's mayor is mulling putting an end to the "duck chase".
Because no one is left alive in Europe with a sense of humor.