This thing with the ducks in San Francisco is getting ridiculous. Now, I agree that whoever ran over the ducks is a seriously f’ed up individual, and I agree that he should be arrested and brought up on animal cruelty charges. And while serving his sentence, I agree that he should go through some sort of therapy to address his problem. There is no question that he has serious issues; stemming probably from either an unfortunate petting-zoo-related incident in childhood or the fact that he lost his job to all the cheap illegal immigrant duck labor flooding into urban areas from rural areas or China. Who knows? Maybe he thought they were carrying bird flu…or maybe they actually were carrying bird flu! What if he overheard some secret duck meeting, or was mistakenly sent one of their conspiratorial emails where they were plotting to spread it to children through America’s network of car washes? Now who’s the earthly manifestation of evil?
What irritates me a little about the whole thing through is this $14,000 that has been raised as a reward to find the killer. Honestly, people – is this the cause that got you to get off your butt and pull out the checkbook in the name of charitable giving? All the starving kids in Sudan and Niger didn’t do it? Homeless people on the streets of your own city not an obvious enough sign that people might need some help out there? How about a little perspective, folks? Please? How about turning off the 24-hour coverage of the latest missing pretty white girl and remembering that as unfortunate as it is, and as screwed up as that guy is, there are bigger problems that humanity is trying to deal with at the moment.
Okay, stepping down off the soapbox now…
What irritates me a little about the whole thing through is this $14,000 that has been raised as a reward to find the killer. Honestly, people – is this the cause that got you to get off your butt and pull out the checkbook in the name of charitable giving? All the starving kids in Sudan and Niger didn’t do it? Homeless people on the streets of your own city not an obvious enough sign that people might need some help out there? How about a little perspective, folks? Please? How about turning off the 24-hour coverage of the latest missing pretty white girl and remembering that as unfortunate as it is, and as screwed up as that guy is, there are bigger problems that humanity is trying to deal with at the moment.
Okay, stepping down off the soapbox now…
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That said, BTK moved on to killing many people in horrible ways, which deserves at least a resonable amount of attention. The duck guy, not so much.
And if they know this dude has personalized license plates and the whole thing is on videotape, why is it taking a reward to catch him? Are the cops in California this bad?
And seriously... "death toll"? In a DUCK killing? Are they kidding? I think they must be kidding.
And on the duck pond car wash concern, my boyfriend's family ran their own version of said establishment during his youth. So don't knock the duck pond car wash idea!!