Tales of Two Animals

Here are two tales about animals, the first one funny and the second one (just to forewarn you) sad.

The first story is actually all over the internet, so some of my readers may have heard it already. A Civil War cemetery in New York was disturbed that someone was removing flags from the graves of fallen soldiers. First the culprit took a bunch of flags from the graves of Jewish soldiers, then he or she took them from the graves of black soldiers. The police were notified and an extensive search was made for the culprit. Finally surveillance cameras were set up, and the thief was caught on film – it was a groundhog! Then they looked in its burrow and found remnants of other flags. Police have no plans to charge the groundhog at this time, but they say they will use taller flags in the future.

The second story is one that A-Joz heard from another neighbor of ours. This neighbor was driving down the street near where we live when she saw a baby duckling in the middle of the road. Since it is a fairly busy street, she pulled over and got out of her car to grab the duckling and move it to safety. The cars that were coming along saw her in the road and stopped to see what was up… except for a woman in a minivan who was yakking on her cell phone as she drove along. She didn’t slow down at all and ran right over the poor baby duckling, then kept going as if she had no idea what she had just done. Which maybe she didn’t, if she was that oblivious. So let that be a lesson to you – do not talk and drive, or you might run over poor, defenseless animals.

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