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Why did 100,000* ducks try to cross the road?

Huge numbers of ducks blocked a rural road in Bang Len district in Thailand as they left their ho...
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15.29 17 Jun 2014


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Why did 100,000* ducks try to cross the road?

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15.29 17 Jun 2014


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Huge numbers of ducks blocked a rural road in Bang Len district in Thailand as they left their home farm in a "mass revolt" in search of food, and the incident was caught on camera and shared online. The two-minute...

The two-minute video clip was uploaded to YouLike, a video-sharing website, on Saturday.

In the video, a car driver was seen complaining to a woman who was filming the incident that he was in a hurry to get to work, but his way was blocked huge numbers of ducks.

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"I'm not sure why these ducks are in revolt. You can see the great mass of ducks swarming on the road. They have now occupied the area entirely," the man quipped.

There could be as many as a "hundred thousand" ducks blocking the road, he added.

He was referring to the so-called great mass uprising, or muan maha prachachon, of the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC), led by former Democrat Party secretary-general Suthep Thaugsuban. The PDRC laid siege to Bangkok for about six months, beginning in November, to topple the Yingluck Shinawatra government.

According to Jack Saranthat, a farmer was taking the ducks to find food on the opposite side of the road.

(*may not actually be 100,000)


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