Ducks can hold vendettas, according to one harassed woman.
While making her way across her university campus, Madolyn noted a duck glaring maliciously in her direction. She didn’t think much of it and headed to the clinic while talking to her mom on the phone.
The duck made a beeline for the woman with only one thing on its mind. Destruction. It chased her down and started biting her with seemingly no provocation. “He just started gnawing at my leg, like he just kept going for it,” she told People.
Those little beaks might look cute, but they’re pretty vicious. Pecking away, the duck was able to bite straight through her scrubs and eventually break the skin underneath. Shocked, she tried to make an escape.
Really, she should have either given the rabid duck a kick and sent it on its way or run, but instead she climbed on a bench. The duck couldn’t get up there, but now she was stuck. Eventually, the duck relented, and the woman was able to leave.
But when she got to the clinic she worked at, she did need to receive a tetanus shot. The wild duck had broken the skin on her leg.
Duck Comeback
The college campus Madolyn walks through is her regular route to the clinic, so she was worried that the next day, she would face the vicious beast again. And, lo and behold, it was waiting. Despite changing her appearance and keeping her voice down, the duck went straight for her.
“I just didn’t expect him to remember me, which was my bad. I underestimated him, but I didn’t expect him to think that I was the same person or anything.” But it made a beeline for her, and once again, the helpless woman was under attack by the duck.
Apparently, she isn’t alone, though. This duck has been known to attack other people coming through the college campus. “He’s chased other people. I’ve been there a couple of times, and I think there are eggs or something over there that he’s trying to guard,” Madolyn adds, “and I think he just takes his job very, very seriously, which I can respect. You know, he does a great job at it.”
She just needs to make sure she’s wearing thick pants.