Duck full of yeast explodes; man loses eye

[Dennis Donovan]

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9:46 AM - May 9, 2020

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[Squinch]

1. That's horrible.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Too soon?

[Squinch]

5. No. Feeding yeast to a duck is too proto-serial-killer.

A sign of a very, very sick mind.

[Dennis Donovan]

6. I read it as the duck ate it accidentally - they didn't mean for the duck to eat it

It was a blue ribbon duck. You just don't blow up your best duck.

[Squinch]

7. Hilarious.

[sarge43]

3. Bad enough losing an eye, but for the rest of his life,

he'd have to endure people point him out as the guy who lost that eye by a fragment of flying yeast filled duck.

"Hey, there's Sy! Ask him about the duck."

[exboyfil]

4. Florida has Florida Man

Iowa has Iowa Duck

[5X]

8. makes me think of donald duck, dotard duck.

Somebody get me a taco bowl full of yeast.

[Sanity Claws]

9. How awful!

Why would the man feed his duck yeast? Is yeast a treat in small amounts for a duck?

[tblue37]

13. He didn't. The article explains that the duck found the yeast. nt

[MiniMe]

10. That's a reminder to keep rising dough out of the reach of your dog!

[keithbvadu2]

11. Put that on your medical insurance claim.

Put that on your medical insurance claim.

[eppur_se_muova]

12. It doesn't say where this duck came from ...

What good is a duck without source ?

[LeftInTX]

14. From 1910

[Dennis Donovan]

15. I wasn't sure - I guessed sometime around then because the writing is similar to this:

It's the write-up from the local paper about my great grandfather's unfortunate end (tl;dr version: it wasn't because of an exploding duck )

[LeftInTX]

16. Oh no!!! Your poor great grandmother and grandfather

I googled the article and found this:

Los Angeles Herald, Volume 37, Number 123, 1 February 1910
DUCK FULL OF YEAST EXPLODES; MAN LOSES EYE

DES MOINES, Jan. Rhadamanthus, .............
https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19100201.2.108.73&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1

[Dennis Donovan]

17. I would usually google something like that, for the backstory if anything

I mean, I know that it's a terrible thing that the duck exploded, and really wish it didn't happen to the poor duck. But, after 110 yrs, I think we can laugh at it a little.

And to underscore to everyone that it's ducks, in general, that make me laugh (even the exploding kind), here's Gus Visser and his singing duck:

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