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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lifefromabove 0
this is ******* stupid. who gives a shit? it's one stupid little duck. chances are it would have died anyway.
WFMS 0
aww now i'm sad. at least this isn't as bad as that person who ran over the little kid's kitten
Sappheyes 0
Most ducklings die before reaching adulthood anyways. That's why mother ducks lay so many eggs, because invariably a good number of them will succumb to some form of animal carelessness like this. There are always a lot of ducks that come by my house, and every year I watch as the clutches dwindle in number, until just one or two young adults remain. It's nature, my friends. Not all ducklings can survive, otherwise there would be duck overpopulation. The OP didn't kill the duckling, it killed itself by swimming too close to something it should have recognized as dangerous: natural selection.
ziqi92 0
noooooooooooooo! the little duckie!!!!!!!!!!!! hey, whatever happened to the zoom function??????
spidergirl41 0
Oh I'm sure you do, you crazy chick who probably lives on the computer. Please, quit being so weird and have your mama go change your Huggies, huh? And yes, in case you couldn't comprehend that, it WAS an insult.
jeanine_fml 0
I wonder, how many of those who are calling me a murderer for stepping two feet off the walkway I was on towards some ducks, have ever donated to an animal welfare fund, or written senators to urge them to fight against the seal hunt. I wonder how many will eat a meal with chicken in it today. Talk is cheap, and some of you guys are idiots. I feel guilty about what happened, but some of you guys are just absolutely nuts. For the record, it was a public pond where people feed the ducks all day long. Not exactly wildlife to keep distance from... Had I a morsel of bread in my hand instead of a camera they would have been chasing me down instead.
rightsaidred 3
Word.
alex_vik 1
I guess you haven't figured out how to zoom in with your new camera yet.
heatherrrx 0
:OOOOOOOOO WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU?!?!?!?!
starstrukk18 0
what is freaking wrong with you!??!?!?!?
delly_fml 0
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