Make way for ducklings

Following on yesterday’s post about the therapeutic effects of ducks, here’s a video that really appeals to me, from Norway:

Because there’s nothing like seeing armed police escort a family of ducks along a highway and across town.

(BTW: am I the only person who thinks those ducks are totally booking? I mean, for not being built for land travel, they are definitely moving at speed.)

According to a Danish friend, at the end of the video the cop tells the journalist that they got the call earlier and walked the ducks all the way home. And that it makes him feel good and he would do it again.

Well, yes.

My Danish friend says that this sort of thing happens with some frequency in the Nordic countries and that motorists do not get their knickers in a twist over yielding to ducklings.

I contrast that with what the scene would be like here in the Valley They Call Silicon. Scores of self-important ninja rock-star thought leaders in Priuses and Teslas would be turning both the air and the Twitterverse blue with their indignation at the hold-up in their commute, for whatever reason.

Of course, they’d do that in the rare instance when it rains, too.