Matthew West and Peter Nicholson from Mornington in Victoria, Australia, found this duck stuck in a pottery Tuscan urn. Afraid of injuring it by reaching inside they improvised.
Ingenious. Though I've never seen anyone so fearfully handle pine cones before. That guy was wearing gardening gloves and cowered away from every shuffle and flap the duck made.
Shak: I'd wondered that myself! I'm going to choose to believe it was cemented down or there were rocks in the bottom already and turning it on its side may have caused a landslide of junk inside the urn.
Ingenious for sure! I too wondered about why they didn't tip it over, but figured maybe the weight of it was too much, or as you said, it could possibly bury the duck. I guess another idea would be that possibly if it was on its side, the duck would feel no urgency to escape. I'm thinking that he was so tentative with the pine cones because he didn't want to frighten the duck with huge hands covering the top of the urn. Either way, these people seemed to know what they were doing, thank goodness!
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Couldn't they have just put the urn on its side? Am I missing something?
Ingenious. Though I've never seen anyone so fearfully handle pine cones before. That guy was wearing gardening gloves and cowered away from every shuffle and flap the duck made.
Shak: I'd wondered that myself! I'm going to choose to believe it was cemented down or there were rocks in the bottom already and turning it on its side may have caused a landslide of junk inside the urn.
Ingenious for sure!
I too wondered about why they didn't tip it over, but figured maybe the weight of it was too much, or as you said, it could possibly bury the duck. I guess another idea would be that possibly if it was on its side, the duck would feel no urgency to escape.
I'm thinking that he was so tentative with the pine cones because he didn't want to frighten the duck with huge hands covering the top of the urn.
Either way, these people seemed to know what they were doing, thank goodness!
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