Ducks on the shore

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Via James over at Aces Full of Links comes a story at CNN about rubber ducks washing up along the shores of New England.

The ducks were released from a shipping container that fell off a cargo ship in 1992 while travelling between China and Seattle. Since then they've moved North through the Bering Strait and then past Iceland.

Aside from wondering why no one tried to pick these little plastic eco-destroyers out of the ocean, this is pretty wild. I'm half tempted to drive down to the beach to look for a few of the suckers myself! Screw that geo-caching stuff; these ducks have been hidden in the ocean for years!

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