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TheBetterBettor
16 May 15 12:41
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http://news.sky.com/story/1484851/lawnmower-man-ran-over-family-of-ducklings

A US landscaper is accused of running over a mother duck and her 11 ducklings with a lawnmower as a family that was feeding the birds watched in horror.

Jason Falbo, 24, has been charged with nine counts of animal cruelty over the incident on 2 May in Wellington, south Florida.

The ducks were eating their lunch on the grass near a tree in the family's backyard when Falbo allegedly struck.

Boyd Jentzsch says his family, including his seven-year-old son, were watching from inside their home and screamed as the ducks were run over.

Mother duck and ducklings
The mother and two ducklings survived. File pic

Mr Jentzsche says he ran outside and confronted Falbo, reports the South Florida Sun Sentinel.

He told the newspaper the landscaper was smiling as he reversed the mower and ran over the ducklings again.

Mr Jentzsche called the police and the county's Animal Care and Control.

Nine ducklings were killed, including two who escaped into a lake with their mother, but drowned.

The mother and two ducklings survived.

Witness Laura Gontchar told the Palm Beach Post: "Everything was flying in the air, the blade was so powerful. It was horrific."

She said the mother duck returned to their backyard in search of her ducklings hours after the incident.

A police arrest report said the ducklings lost their lives "cruelly and viciously with extreme intent".

Falbo, of Royal Palm Beach, was arrested on Wednesday.

He is being held at the Palm Beach County Jail on $27,000 (£17,000) bail.
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Report GRANTCKING • May 16, 2015 12:46 PM BST
physcopath
Report guinness2dear • May 16, 2015 12:48 PM BST
Duckist
Report Eeternaloptimist • May 16, 2015 1:18 PM BST
What a wantonly cruel destructive species we are. A blight on a beautiful planet.
Report Steamship • May 16, 2015 3:04 PM BST
The sooner something comes along and wipes out the human race the better for the other creatures on earth
Report Aunty Post • May 16, 2015 3:11 PM BST
Sickening to read, but to have seen it!!!!

How the **** could someone do this, and why when people are around???
Report lovegod • May 16, 2015 3:40 PM BST
Maybe someone should run him over with a lawnmower?
Report posy • May 16, 2015 4:08 PM BST
Should be dispatched the North Korean way
Report kincsem • May 16, 2015 4:28 PM BST
Stocks were a good idea.
Report flushgordon1 • May 16, 2015 4:30 PM BST
dave lee travis said quack quack oops.
Report flushgordon1 • May 16, 2015 4:32 PM BST
In a later statement he said tight as a ducks arse whilst gazing at some 15 year olds.
Report screaming from beneaththewaves • May 16, 2015 4:35 PM BST
Happens all the time to ground-nesting birds. When a field of cereal has been cut, you'll often see the sliced-up remains of a hen pheasant with her brood on the ground.

An inevitable consequence of vegetarianism.
Report flushgordon1 • May 16, 2015 4:36 PM BST
Also deer fawns and hare leveretts.
Report Aunty Post • May 16, 2015 5:24 PM BST
Read the text and comments before looking at the link.

Looking at the state of the felon, makes me wonder what other criminal, and unsavoury activities, he has been involved in!
Report The Leopard • May 16, 2015 5:30 PM BST
Got to be a Tory !
Report Makybe_Diva • May 16, 2015 6:48 PM BST
Wish I hadn't read this Shocked
Report Makybe_Diva • May 16, 2015 6:49 PM BST
That was meant to be Sad

I would happily run over him in a combine harvester.
Report Just Checking • May 16, 2015 6:50 PM BST
At least it was probably quick and they suffered less than a lot of animals do under inhumane humanity..
Report kenny mann • May 16, 2015 6:52 PM BST
I didn't read it MD! The header tells it all.
Report Makybe_Diva • May 16, 2015 6:55 PM BST
I only read it in the hope it had at least been accidental.
Report polybot • May 17, 2015 3:28 AM BST
Wind turbines kill around 300,000 birds annually
house cats kill around 3,000,000,000 birds annually
Jason Falbo kills less than 1 bird annually
Report David Fishwick Minibus Sales • May 17, 2015 7:53 AM BST
The ducks were eating their lunch

Laugh
Report Foinavon • May 17, 2015 11:01 AM BST
Man kills defenceless birds. Rather like grouse shooting then.
Report Coachbuster • May 17, 2015 6:10 PM BST
absolute c u n t  of a bloke
Plain
Report Mikael D'Haguenet • May 17, 2015 7:06 PM BST
Polybot or Falbo?
Report bigH • May 17, 2015 8:00 PM BST
https://openpasts.com/PublicRecord/JASON-FALBO/15062551691594
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