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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Halloween
A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
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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Comments (311)
BeyondImage 0
Your new camera sucks for having a bad zoom =) poor ducky x
chellinha93 0
oh man.......... did you see the guy that spended his day saving little ducks by getting them off a roof from a building? well if you didnt, you should so next time you know exactly how its supposed to be done. he was the hero of the day
a_kiwi 0
spent
MissEventide 0
Holy shit, ghost duck is posting on FML.
27cntry27 0
That's not funny You suck
allmidnighteyes 11
Holy shit D: That thing is gonna appear at your bedside one day, mangled and feathery, and eat your eyes, OP. Eat. Your. Eyes.
jugglernaut 0
but if you send this to 15 people in the next 5 minutes, it will leave you alone.
stfuILY 0
oh shit! poor ducky.
Asdas_fml 0
hahahahahahaha nice one jugglernaut, laughed my ass off :D
PureGold 0
Awwwww I would feel HORRIBLE!! Poor little duckling :'( That's why cameras have zoom, and are digital, so you can upload the pictures to your computer and crop them further. You didn't need to get close enough to spook them. So YDI, duck murderer.
kiki009_fml 0
You killed a baby duck for a ******* picture? You should die.
jackfm5 0
taking picture of ducks? wat are u 5? you have no ******* life
PureGold 0
Ducks, nature, other animals...all great subjects for taking photographs, especially for professional or aspiring photographers. There's a giant lake at my school...I know I've taken my fair share of duck pictures, for my photography class and just for fun, cause I actually enjoy taking pictures. And yes, I do have a life. So don't even bother to comment about subjects don't understand or know anything about, you'll just end up sounding stupid. And since when do 5-year-olds take pictures of anything? Asshole.
Suckstbeyou 0
wow these people really care about that duck. I bet they agree with PETA that Obama shouldn't have swatted the fly. kinda sad ya but the chances of all the ducks making it are slim. we have baby bunnies in our backyard they get eatn all the time. I found a starving baby bird covered in ants once and drove a shovel through it's neck. see I did it a favor, birds who fall out of the nest never make it. never. how you like that you flaky weak little do gooders?
carmencalamity 0
Yeah, people really do care about that duck, maybe because they just love animals. Now would they agree with PETA? I think you went a little too far making that statement just to make a point. PETA is an organization of crazy people, though their intentions are good, their actions are a bit over board. And really, why would you compare the life of a fly (whose lifespan is only 15-26 days) to that of a duck? Also your statement saying birds that fall out of the nest never make it isn't true at all, if you know what you're doing and take the necessary steps to care for the bird, then the bird in fact CAN make it. It's been done before, or you can easily call animal control and they take care of it for you. I don't see how caring for a duck can also make someone a "flaky weak little do gooder"
unity_fml 0
wow. just wow. so, they accidentally kill a duck, wait no in fact, they had nothing to do with the killing of the duck at all, but they deserve to die? wow, your priorities seem a bit mixed aha.
polkm714 0
Ummm... A waterfall starting at a pond? If it's a pond waterfall it can't be more than like 2 feet high!
PureGold 0
O_O #47...what the ****?? I think you have anger issues. Go get help instead of taking them out on animals you *think* you're helping. My first word as a child was "duck"...I happen to like them a lot, they're really cute. I would feel horrible if I accidentally killed one...especially in front of it's family. That doesn't mean I'm a vegan, tree-hugging, PETA-supporting, "flaky weak little do-gooder". Not feeling any remorse after doing something like what the OP did, or doing it on purpose, like you probably would have would make you a hopeless, mildly sadistic asshole.
Je_mapelle 0
WOW, YOUR SO HARDCORE AND COOL. you'd make a fine serial killer one day. learn how to use proper grammar while your at it.
maxson_fml 0
"learn how to use proper grammar while your at it" That might be one of the most ironically funny things I've read in quite a while.
Asdas_fml 0
Why does he have anger issues? I didn't see any anger in his post at all. You should try to find out about this guy called Darwin, having some more reality in your life wouldn't probably be too bad.