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Video: What Happens When 50 Ducks Invade A CVS
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Ben Yakas
Published Oct 28, 2013
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Approximately 50 ducks invaded a CVS in upstate New York last week. According to the person who uploaded the video to YouTube, the ducks somehow made it through two sets of automatic doors inside a CVS drugstore in Saratoga Springs on Thursday. As you can see in the video below, it's basically like Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds, only with cute harmless things that make goofy noises.
Ultimately, an employee decided to use a bag of Smartfood popcorn to lure the ducks out. "There was no serious damage to the store, except for a small amount of mud that the ducks tracked in on their webbed feet," the uploader adds. This clearly could never happen in NYC, unless it involved rats, in which case it happens every goddamn day.
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