http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?sec...cal&id=3344189
This is where I get my truck washed, and I've always loved the place because of the duckies. They really are an integral part of the place, and everyone adored them. I heard about this the day after it happened, and I went to get my truck washed/donate to the reward fund a few days later.
I am blown away. What did these ducks ever do to anyone? I highly recommend NOT watching the surveillance tapes linked to on the site.
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Aug. 12 - A man was captured on grainy security-camera tap running over 10 ducks that lived in a pond at a popular Campbell car wash.
Employees, patrons and neighbors of the business -- who treated the fowl almost like family -- called the crime unspeakably cruel.
The tapes aren't clear -- police can't even read the car's license plate -- but investigators hope that images released yesterday will help them catch the man they want to charge with animal cruelty.
Shortly after midnight last Friday, four security cameras at the Delta Queen Classic Car Wash captured images of a driver running over ducks five or six times in a 16-minute rampage. The driver also got out of his car several times to chase the birds -- some of them ducklings -- and appeared to grab one or two by the neck and throw them against or into his car.
Delta Queen manager Mike Davis says about a dozen ducks survived. Most of the fowl are descendants of Cheese and Quackers, a pair that were dropped off by a customer in 1972.
Felony animal cruelty is punishable by up to three years in prison and a $20,000 fine.
Police say the car appears to be a late '80s or early '90s red two-door Acura Integra, or something similar. The driver appears to be in his late teens or early 20s, with short, dark brown hair. He was wearing a black T-shirt and blue jeans.
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