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Bizarre story of last week award, goes to the Gloucestershire Echo for the story of the mystery naked hero who rescued a duck in distress.

Animal lover Jennie Trisnan had spent three hours trying to rescue a duck that was entangled in fishing wire in a local lake.

Her attempts were certainly original. She first tried using her mobile phone to call the emergency services – who presumably told her to ‘duck off’. Then she grabbed a bemused passer-by to ask if his Collie dog was intelligent enough to round up the duck, sheepdog-style. It wasn’t.

She also waded waist-deep into the water herself, and then persuaded local boys to try and gently unhook the frightened bird with long sticks.

Then, apparently from nowhere, came her hero who stripped off his clothes and saved the duck before modestly disappearing without giving his name. But he did take the duck, and said he would get his sister – a vet – to check it over.

Jennie was so grateful that she asked the Echo to run her story with an appeal for the mystery man to come forward.

And – amazingly – the newspaper got a result, despite Jennie’s unflattering description of his “greying underpants”.

He was revealed as burly bouncer Dean Greenhough.

So, the Echo was able to run an exclusive follow-up interview with him under the headline I’m the Mystery Duck Rescue Man.

He told the paper: “I love animals and this was something I had to do. If it can be released back into the wild, I’d love to do that myself.”

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