French Duck Farmer Fined for Feeding Birds Cannabis to Rid Them of Worms

By Daily Mail - Monday, November 22 2010

A French duck farmer has been given a one-month suspended jail sentence and fined 500 euros ($700) for feeding his birds marijuana to rid them of worms.

Police arrested Michel Rouyer, from the village of Gripperie-Saint-Symphorien on the Atlantic coast, after they discovered 12 cannabis plants and around 11lbs of the drug after visiting the farm about a theft.

Rouyer admitted smoking some of the drug himself, but insisted most of it was given to his 150 ducks for medicinal purposes.

He said 'There's no better worming substance for them, a specialist advised me to do it.'

Jean Piot, the farmer's lawyer, said: 'This is for real, not one (duck) has worms and they're all in excellent health.'

A police spokesman said: 'It's the first time we've heard something like this.'

- Article from Daily Mail

 

I saw the same article in the Toronto Star

I'll help make the ash.

 

He said 'There's no better worming substance for them, a specialist advised me to do it.'

I can attest to that as I've been worm free since 1975

 

I saw or heard this at least 5 times...same thing with the dea thread...old fucking news...LUnar...were stoners...doesnt mean we dont participate in media...for a non weed user you sure are posting a lot of drug themed threads... maybe you should stick to dominating the poetry forum:mickey:

 

A non-weed user? There have been times when I have gone long periods without using. There have been times when I've gone long periods using heavily. Weed comes and goes for me.


Anyways, two people so far have heard this story. Both articles were dated with today's date. Feel free to skim over them if you've heard them.

P.S.- I'm not a fan of passive aggression. :mickey:

 

cool story. first time i've seen it.

 

i wonder how exactly pot works as a dewormer? interesting....

 

"It's amazing what a duck
can teach you."
-Curt Ebbesmeyer, oceanographer
Here is the story of some intrepid rubber ducks who are out to circumnavigate the globe, or disintegrate trying. They began their quest in 1992 by jumping ship in the middle of the Pacific, and have been sighted at exotic points from Kamchatka to Hawaii to Iceland ever since. On the way, they have provided excellent data points for ocean current research. And while their color has faded from cheery yellow to bone white, their adventurous spirit remains, and their legend will live on in history.

Timeline
10 January 1992, somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
Nearly 29,000 First Years bath toys, including bright yellow rubber ducks, are spilled from a container cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean (at 44ºN, 178ºE, in fact).

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16 November 1992
Caught in the Subpolar Gyre (counter-clockwise ocean current in the Bering Sea, between Alaska and Siberia), the ducks take 10 months to begin landing on the shores of Alaska.

Early 1995
The ducks take three years to circle around, East from the drop site to Alaska, then all the way West and South to Japan before turning back North and East, passing the original drop site and again landing in North America. Some ducks are even found in Hawaii. The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has worked out that the ducks travel approximately 50% faster than the water in the current.

1995-2000
Some intrepid ducks escape the Subpolar Gyre and head North, through the Bering Straight and into the frozen waters of the Arctic. Frozen into the ice, the ducks travel slowly across the Pole, moving ever Eastward.

2000
Ducks begin reaching the North Atlantic, where they begin to thaw and move Southward. Soon ducks are sighted bobbing in the waves from Maine to Massachusetts.

2001
Ducks are tracked in the area where the Titanic sunk.

July to December 2003
The First Years offers a $100 savings bond reward for the recovery of wayward ducks from the 1992 spill. To be valid, ducks must be sent to the First Years, and must be found in New England, Canada or Iceland. Britain is told to prepare for an ‘invasion’ of the wayward ducks, as well.

UPDATE: Rubber Ducks Circumnavigate the Globe

2007 July 15
According to an article in England’s “Daily Mail”, the first “Friendly Floatee” rubber duck has been found in the UK. As predicted by oceanographers, some of the 29,000 rubber ducks (and frogs, beavers and turtles) accidentally lost at sea in 1992 are now beginning to make landfall in Britain. The wayward rubber duck was found by Penny Harris, 60, as she walked her dog on a Devon beach. Covered in brown seaweed and barnacle-encrusted, the faded and partially decomposed toy has been sent to manufacturer The First Years in order to claim the $100 finders reward offered by the company.

Seattle oceanographer Dr. Curtis Ebbesmeyer, who has been tracking ocean-going oddities since 1991, predicts another wave of ducks will make landfall in North America in 2007. Dr. Ebbesmeyer’s work in ocean currents, and the stuff that floats on them, has called worldwide attention to the issue of ocean pollution. It is estimated that 10,000 shipping containers fall into the ocean each year, adding to the millions of bits of trash and junk floating around the world. After decades of exposure to the elements, most garbage breaks down into a layer of plastic and chemical scum that is coating the surface of oceans worldwide.

Dr. Ebbesmeyer has a website about the ducks here: Beachcombing Science from Bath Toys

2007 August 21st
Marga Houtman creates a Mother rubber duck for the duckies to return home to.

 

haha orison out- duck posted the OP

 

Shut the duck up or get the duck out!

 

if I seen that giant mother rubber ducker and I was high... Id freak the duck out.. :willy_nilly:< this looks like yellow rubber duck caught in whirlpool ..

 

I'm going to duck out for a moment, I'll be back.

 

its all be right quack.. wtd..

 

lol


You quack me up.

 

ever hunt out of a deer stand?

 

what the duck, are you blind.. thems is turkeys.. Oh deer,.

 

well, a nut was busted out of one

 

Enjoying the gravy train are we?