[Will Hunt]

I dont care how much negative karma you throw at me for posting this. I had to share it. It is truly phenomenal.

http://partymode.org/files/385.pdf

[Nibile]

i can't stop but thinking about you googling for "homosexual necrophilia"...
was that the desired result?
 

[Will Hunt]

Errrr. Sent the link by a friend. Honest guv.
 

Its actually well worth having a read. The guy who observed it was clearly not in his right mind. He let it go on for 75 minutes, took some pictures and THEN decided enough was enough. He includes a photograph showing his vantage point, the site of the collision that killed the victim and the site of the crime.

[lagerstarfish]

"Then the author disturbed the scene and secured the dead duck. Dissection
showed that the rape-victim indeed was of the male sex"

I find it hard to believe that someone from the natural history museum needed to disect a mallard to determine it's sex. 5 year olds in Endcliffe park know how to tell a mummy duck from a daddy duck.

Ah, further reading makes a bit more sense. He was in mid plumage change and thus appeared as a cross-dresser.

"my initial thought that NMR 9997-00232 was a senile female wearing a male plumage (see: Post & Kompanje 1992)proved wrong. The plumage of NMR 9997-00232, although moulting into the non-breeding (eclipse) stage, still showed enough male features (Fig. 3) to judge a 'mistake' by the raping drake (that was still in full breeding plumage [Fig. 2a]) as highly unlikely."

Only in Rotterdam eh? 

"most ribs broken close to the sternum (might be caused by the prolonged copulation)" shit 
 

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Hope this isn't an omen for what's in store for 2008...

This time next year....
"How was 2008 for you?"
"Oh you know, a bit too much dead duck arse-raping" 

[rasheed]

Hope this isn't an omen for what's in store for 2008...

garr, now were all doomed 

[Monolith]

Speak for yourself. I'm going to crush every last fuck particle out of my goals and then some.

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

Reading through this he's got it all wrong, the duck was obviously trying to resuscitate his fellow duck, due to lack of hands this is obviously the Official St John's Ambulance technique for duck-duck resuscitation. We have the simple Mallard mis-judged, we have grossly underestimated their CPR ability. 'Go on fella, fuck him back to life....'

[GCW]

This was one of the works up for the Ig Nobel prizes in 2007.

The 2007 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

MEDICINE: Brian Witcombe of Gloucester, UK, and Dan Meyer of Antioch, Tennessee, USA, for their penetrating medical report "Sword Swallowing and Its Side Effects."

PHYSICS: L. Mahadevan of Harvard University, USA, and Enrique Cerda Villablanca of Universidad de Santiago de Chile, for studying how sheets become wrinkled.

BIOLOGY: Prof. Dr. Johanna E.M.H. van Bronswijk of Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands, for doing a census of all the mites, insects, spiders, pseudoscorpions, crustaceans, bacteria, algae, ferns and fungi with whom we share our beds each night.

CHEMISTRY: Mayu Yamamoto of the International Medical Center of Japan, for developing a way to extract vanillin -- vanilla fragrance and flavoring -- from cow dung.
PRESS NOTE: Toscanini's Ice Cream, the finest ice cream shop in Cambridge, Massachusetts, created a new ice cream flavor in honor of Mayu Yamamoto, and introduced it at the Ig Nobel ceremony. The flavor is called "Yum-a-Moto Vanilla Twist."

LINGUISTICS: Juan Manuel Toro, Josep B. Trobalon and Núria Sebastián-Gallés, of Universitat de Barcelona, for showing that rats sometimes cannot tell the difference between a person speaking Japanese backwards and a person speaking Dutch backwards.

LITERATURE: Glenda Browne of Blaxland, Blue Mountains, Australia, for her study of the word "the" -- and of the many ways it causes problems for anyone who tries to put things into alphabetical order.

PEACE: The Air Force Wright Laboratory, Dayton, Ohio, USA, for instigating research & development on a chemical weapon -- the so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make enemy soldiers become sexually irresistible to each other.

NUTRITION: Brian Wansink of Cornell University, for exploring the seemingly boundless appetites of human beings, by feeding them with a self-refilling, bottomless bowl of soup.

ECONOMICS: Kuo Cheng Hsieh, of Taichung, Taiwan, for patenting a device, in the year 2001, that catches bank robbers by dropping a net over them.

AVIATION: Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano and Diego A. Golombek of Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina, for their discovery that Viagra aids jetlag recovery in hamsters.