[barend]

Man accused of beheading duck at hotel
His alleged explanation? ‘I'm hungry. I'm gonna eat it’

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A man was in custody Sunday after police said he ripped the head off a tame duck that lived in a hotel lobby’s ornamental pond.

Scott D. Clark, a guest at the Embassy Suites Hotel in St. Paul, cornered the duck early Saturday morning, grabbed the bird and ripped its head from its body while a hotel security guard and others watched, police said.

Clark then turned to onlookers and said: “I’m hungry. I’m gonna eat it,” St. Paul police Sgt. John Wuorinen said.

“He was allegedly drunk,” Wuorinen said.

Clark, 26, of Denver, was detained by hotel security guards until police came to arrest him.

He remained jailed Sunday on suspicion of felony animal cruelty and was scheduled to appear in court Monday to be charged.

A phone message left for Clark at the jail was not returned Sunday.

If convicted, he could face up to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, said Tim Shields, general counsel with the Minnesota Federated Humane Societies. Shields said the incident was “unconscionable,” and that having live ducks in a hotel lobby puts them at risk of being stepped on or run over by suitcases.

“I think Embassy Suites needs to take another look at this and review how they keep ducks safe, or use fish like most hotels would use,” Shields said.

Calls to the Embassy Suites were referred to either the assistant general manager or the general manager, and neither of them were available Sunday.


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Thankyou J m HofMarN, for this one.

Well just goes to show you that class is not defined by wealth.

Also, I hope this guy goes to jail. Just for the pleasure it will bring the other inamtes when he tells them why he's in there.

[Spoon Poetic]

Seriously though, who keeps ducks in a hotel lobby???

[Ninja Duck]

The fiend! I hope he gets eaten by a Hadrosaurid.

[Bond]

Maybe he was one of Ozzy Osbourne's bastard sons...

Mmmm... yummy duckie...

[Slade]

Any human being that has such a blatent disregard for life as to forcefully and personally remove the head of an animal that belongs to someone else does not deserve to be allowed in society for a very long time.

[Spoon Poetic]

Yes, I agree. But still. Ducks??? In a hotel lobby?????

[barend]

Waht are you talking about spoony?

I would stay at a hotel just because they had ducks.

[J m HofMarN]

Imagine being this guy. You check into your hotel, have a few drinks, the next day you wake up in a jail cell covered in blood and feathers. That has to suck almost as bad as getting your ass kicked by a guy with no arms.

[Cobnat]

Message to all hotels: Do not keep animals close to a place where your customers drink.

[looktothesky]

Yes, I agree. But still. Ducks??? In a hotel lobby?????

The Peabody Hotel chain is well known for having ducks in residence, using their fountain indoors, getting their own habitat and what-not. They have quite a few locations in the US. Weird gimmick, but at least it'd be something you'd remember!

This is awful though, for someone (drunk, even) to waltz around and rip off an animal's head because "he's hungry". Poor duck.

[barend]

Sydney Parliament House has ducks. But they just fly in from somewhere... it's wierd because there's this fountain thats right in the middle of the building surrounded by glass walls. It's just the only part that doesn't have a roof so they'd have to fly directly over it to see it from outside the building. But they found it and they drop in every day to chill out and quack and waggle thier asses at passers by from behind the saftey of the glass.

Alchol doesn't make you a murderer. alcohol just removes your deceptive shell.

this guy is an asshole, and in a country where you get tasered for asking senetors a question, or arrested for asking cops dirrections, or shot for being susspected of stealing an xbox, I'd like to think that wilfully brutally murdering donald duck opens the door for a lifetime of prison rape.

[J m HofMarN]

Barend, only an Australian would display such (beer addled) ignorance of our great American justice system.

Taser boy will be the one with the anal rape. Mr. Goose Guillotine will get off on a technicality.

This post has been edited by J m HofMarN: 26 September 2007 - 10:24 PM

[Radu094]

So he killed a duck.






And he goes to jail for that?.. geesh

[Cobnat]

On a brighter note: I once saw (on TV) an African militiaman from the Congo eat an entire chicken… without cooking it.

Taser boy will be the one with the anal rape. Mr. Goose Guillotine will get off on a technicality.

Sweat land of liberty, of thee I sing… *wipes tear*

[barend]

So he killed a duck.
And he goes to jail for that?.. geesh

They were the hotel's pets.

I'm pretty sure You'd be upset if I came over and killed your cat/dog/ferret/hamster/rabit by ripping its head off then danced around declaring I was going to eat it.