Amelia Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Runner ducks security alert From correspondents in London 24-08-2005 []http://network.news.com.au/image/0,10114,5039987,00.jpg[/] NEWLY installed security alarms at the British royal family's summer estate in Scotland are going off "day and night" thanks to the peregrinations of seven Indian runner ducks. The ducks - named Arabella, Antoine, Parsley, Sage, Rose, Mary and Thyme - were acquired by Prince Charles as environmentally friendly, free-range pest controllers around Birkhall, his getaway within the Balmoral grounds. Security at Balmoral has been upgraded after a series of embarrasing intrusions at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, with underground sensors buried under paths and lawns. But no one reckoned on web-footed intruders. "The ducks are setting off the alarms day and night," an estate source was quoted as saying in the Times newspaper. "The seven of them going across the lawn is enought to trigger the system. The noise of the webbed feet on the ground is easily picked up by the sensors." Indian runners are extremely active, The Times explained, and unlike other ducks, run rather than waddle. Their taste for worms, slugs and insects makes them ideal for pest control - a plus for Charles, a champion of all things organic. They also like to nibble on grass, so they double as living lawn mowers. Quote <p><span style="color:#0000FF;"><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span style="font-style:italic;">"Do not use harmful words, but only helpful words, the kind that build up and provide what is needed, so that what you say will do good to those who hear you."</span></span> Eph 4:29</span><br><br><img src="http://banners.wunderground.com/weathersticker/gizmotimetemp_both/US/OR/Fairview.gif" alt="Fairview.gif"> Fairview Or</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 Ducks at the White House.... Now this! I believe thay are spies! Probably of Canadian origin. They are testing them out and have found both governments to be wide open to these planted ducks. I guess we were "sitting ducks" for this invasion. Now we find Buckingham now has been invaded with "running ducks". Where are the CIA and FBI? These ducks need to be "bugged" immediatly! Maybe they are "running" for office. What can we expect next? []http://www.emotipad.com/emoticons/Idea.gif[/] Quote The greatest want of the world is the want of men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true & honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty..., men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.{Ed 57.3} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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