Cambridge university student pursued for nine months by stalker using rubber ducks

When nineteen-year-old Abbie Coombs from Broadstairs in Kent began her freshers week at Queens' College at the University of Cambridge she was not expecting to return to her room on the second day to find six rubber ducks. The ducks, which sported eerily-long eyelashes, were placed surreptitiously around her room; on her fridge, next to her jewellery box, in her shower and in a drawer.





Abbie initially thought it was a prank. But it was only the beginning. A couple of weeks later, the duck bandit struck again, with more yellow rubber ducks showing up in her room, although she wasn't too alarmed. She later received a parcel containing a large bar of soap in the shape of a duck. A week or so later, when returning to her room late one night, she pulled back the covers on her bed to find a decapitated rubber duck.


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Then a pink rubber duck appeared in her underwear drawer. The duck bandit later entered her room and placed some of her ducks in the toilet bowl and put another three ducks in her bathroom cabinet. Abbie then got a friend to install a video camera in her room, but the duck bandit somehow knew and targeted her kitchen cupboard, leaving an orange duck with her kitchen knife, smeared with ketchup, stuck through its middle.





Five weeks later the duck bandit left a note reading ‘DUCK DUCK YOU,’ delicately placed in a duck with its head turned inside out, behind one of her photo frames. Some time later, Abbie returned to her room to find a duck seance scene. Several weeks later, a paddling pool full of water, with ducks swimming around in it, was left in her room. In total, Abbie received 24 rubber ducks. She advises the next student living in room EE42 to seriously consider installing CCTV cameras and to change the lock.