The man was whacked with the bird while he filmed the annual "duck chase" last Sunday in the Catalonian seaside town of Roses, where every August ducks are thrown into the Mediterranean and then caught and brought back to the shore by swimmers.
A young woman wearing a white bathing suit attacked the man with a duck - holding it by the legs as she repeatedly lashed him with it. As the attack continued, animal rights activists gathered on the shore chanting, "You would not do that to your dog," before they were removed by police.
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Every year since 1918 about 50 ducks are thrown into the sea in the town north of Barcelona, with swimmers then racing in to catch them and bringing them ashore however they can. But after this incident, the town's mayor is mulling putting an end to the "duck chase". The Mayor of Roses, Montse Mindan, has now prosposed "holding a referendum next year on what residents think, if they want to keep this festival, a tradition that will celebrate its centenary in two years."
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I hope she's done for animal cruelty. The whole thing seems bizarre and cruel but I doubt they ever expected the ducks to be used as weapons. Shame the ducks can't gore them like during bull fighting; if they insist on doing this, maybe they should try this again with sea snakes or Portuguese men o war.
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