Today, I was at a pond taking pictures with my new camera. I saw a mama duck leading her babies around and decided to get in closer to take a picture. Mama duck got spooked and led her babies too close to a waterfall escaping. One fell off. It never surfaced. FML
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Today, I tried to take a cute selfie with a majestic swan by a lake. Just as I was about to take the pic, the swan suddenly got visibly bored of my shit and chased me into the water. I emerged from the lake looking like a soggy, defeated swamp beast. FML
Today, we took the kids to the local pond near my sister-in-law's to feed the geese. I hadn't been there before, and thought I'd take a picture. I turned around to adjust my camera, but the geese, realizing the feast had ended, took flight. Before I could react I was showered with goose shit. FML
Today, I tried to take a picture next to a peacock, but ended up running away with a face and mouth full of feathers. FML
Today, while driving home, I swerved to avoid turning a duck and her babies into roadkill. Another car was coming around a sharp bend at the time and swerved to avoid hitting me. In the end, we both ran our cars off the road, and he took out several ducks in the process. FML
Today, I was trying to take a cute selfie on a hiking trip. As I leaned against a boulder to get the perfect shot, a squirrel jumped out of nowhere and attacked me, probably thinking I was after its food. I dropped my phone into a creek, and my friends took a picture of me freaking out instead. FML
Today, while running in the park, I noticed some ducks in a pond. I stopped to look at them and began quacking at them, to see if they would react. This would have been OK had I not been wearing ear-buds, blasting music, making me unable to realize just how loud I was quacking. With people all around. FML
Today, I bought a new goldfish. While leaving my fish on my balcony to go get fish food, I hear a loud squawk and splash, I race outside to see a bird flying off with my fish. FML
Today, I saved a baby bird from the site I work on. It was the runt and did not have any feathers and was neglected by the mother. I took care of it all day at work and planned on taking it to a wildlife reserve after work. Two minutes away from the reserve, we hit a pothole and I dropped it. It died. FML
Today, I stopped at a park because a duck was following me. I assumed it wanted food, so I gave it a small piece of bread. It followed me to my car, waited beside the door, and then followed me across the parking lot. I may have accidentally adopted a duck. FML
Today, I was tasked with taking a photo of my best friend getting engaged. As her boyfriend got down on one knee, I got so nervous that I fumbled the camera. It landed right in the lake. I didn’t get a single picture, and now I owe them a new Canon EOS R10. FML
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xNatsuki 0
Oh my.. Now I'm sad.
teehee520 0
D= Poor duck. But yeah, good job.
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Dummie 0
I'm gonna go with that the OP didn't try to follow the ducks towards the waterfall with a brand new camera. However... if this is the case then they are brainless and entirely at fault!
kira_999 0
sometimes zoom doesn't always work well enough to take GOOD pictures. You either have to get closer or get one of those giant lenses, but if you do the latter it might be blurry.
FlyingMonkey_fml 0
Should've tried saving it. YDI for doing nothing. Turn off the flash too.
wellchit 0
your new cam has a Zoom feature does it not?
lolzforfun228 3
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
roflwaffle21 0
ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLwaffles anyone?...but thats just TERRIBLE...it never surfaced or you never saw it surface
KumoFF7 3
MURDERER!!!!
spidergirl41 0
I'm sorry, but did the poster say he/she pushed the duckling off the waterfall? Did they drown the duck by hand? No, I didn't think so. All of you morons calling the poster a killer, well, your just showing off your stupidity. She/he took a picture and nature took the duckling. It's life. You can't possibly blame the poster for that. Animals that eat raw meat, cannot think, can't talk, can't construct things like us just can't be labeled in the same catagories as we humans. As a rule, we ARE higher on the food chain! I love animals. But saying they deserve more respect than human is silly, as well is blaming this person for killing a duckling when they didn't do a darn thing but try to take a photo. So please, go eat your veggies and quit bothering innocent people.
that_guy01 0
natural selection. Stupid duck got to close and fell off. No more stupid duck to pass his genes on. Nature's way of cutting the fat. ****** pansies
barlessprison 16
Okay while everyone else is arguing on here, I just have to say, the mental image of this FML made me laugh.
kaly_fml 1
Dear god, my point of how stupid people are has been proved. Animals are easily frightened. It doesn't take much, and who said that op was up close to them (for people going "omgodzzzz its called zoom!")? Even at a good distance away, the duck could have gotten scared. Plus, zoom sucks on some cameras. The OP didn't try to scare them, nor did OP try to get the duck to fall and drown. I love animals as much as the next person, but seriously, getting on like you people are? Get over yourselves. And I bet half of you are hypocrites who don't mind killing bugs, and eat meat. Just because the baby duck is cute it's "oh my god, you murderer!". If it was some ugly animal I bet 90% of you wouldn't care. The duck probably would have died anyway. Maybe in a worse way. Maybe it would have been run over. Maybe ate by another animal. So there.