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Omaha Steve

(99,659 posts)
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 11:07 AM Apr 2015

Quacking duck ringtone helps firefighter rescue ducklings


http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150426/us-odd-ducklings-ringtone-rescue-807d40858f.html

Apr 26, 6:03 PM (ET)

SLIDELL, La. (AP) — Quack! Quack! A duck call ringtone helped a Louisiana firefighter rescue six ducklings from a storm drain.

Spokesman Chad Duffaut of St. Tammany Fire District #1 says even with realistic quacking sounds coming from his cellphone, it took Firefighter Cody Knecht about 90 minutes to catch the first four baby mallards in the southeast Louisiana community of Slidell.

Duffaut says Knecht rescued the others after giving them about an hour to calm down.

FULL story at link.
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Quacking duck ringtone helps firefighter rescue ducklings (Original Post) Omaha Steve Apr 2015 OP
What a sweet story marym625 Apr 2015 #1
Squee! shenmue Apr 2015 #2
Uh oh central scrutinizer Apr 2015 #3
Quack quack...that makes me pipi_k Apr 2015 #4
My ringtone for my son is Family Guy Stewie's, "Mom! Ma! Ma! Mummy! Mama! Ma! Ma! Ma!" ScreamingMeemie Apr 2015 #7
Now I have heard everything BrotherIvan Apr 2015 #5
Awwwwwwwwww joeybee12 Apr 2015 #6

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)
4. Quack quack...that makes me
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 11:40 AM
Apr 2015

laugh.

I have that as a text tone for a couple of family members.

For someone else I have a bagpipe

And for three others I have a clown horn.


One day almost two weeks ago Mr Pipi and I were having lunch in one of our favorite places. Within the space of five minutes, ALL of those people texted me. I can go days and days with no activity at all on my cellphone. That day...no!

I heard a guy in a booth in back of me ask what was that??? His friend said it sounded like a cellphone.

I had to turn the sound off until we left the place

ScreamingMeemie

(68,918 posts)
7. My ringtone for my son is Family Guy Stewie's, "Mom! Ma! Ma! Mummy! Mama! Ma! Ma! Ma!"
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 01:01 PM
Apr 2015

When it goes off in the grocery store, every woman in a 50-foot radius turns and looks for her kid.

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