Seattle Police officers flocked to a Ballard home over the weekend after receiving a reports of fowl play at a man-made duck pond.

According to a police report, police received a call from a 41-year-old Ballard man, who told police he’d repeatedly caught another man breaking into his backyard in an attempt to steal live ducks from a man-made duck pond, which was built by the 41-year-old man’s grandfather 70 years ago.

The report says that three weeks ago, a man knocked on the 41-year-old’s front door and asked for a duck from the pond, which are generally about 60 ducks in the pond on any given day and is only accessible from the 41-year-old’s backyard.

The 41-year-old refused to provide the man with a duck and the man left. But several weeks later, the report says, the 41-year-old caught the man in his backyard.

According to the police report, 41-year-old watched the man “snare a duck with a pole and noose contraption” and wring the duck’s neck, killing it, before he took off running with the duck.

Since the incident, the report says, “the ducks have fled.” The 41-year-old believes the duck-killer “has scared the flock away and [has] no idea how many ducks the suspect has killed.”

SPD is hoping to quack the case soon as officers believe the alleged duck murderer lives in the area.

Jonah Spangenthal-Lee: Proving you wrong since 1983.

18 replies on “SPD Investigating Fowl Play In Ballard”

  5. Mr. Spangenthal-Lee: Funny post.

    Now how about some Stranger-quality in depth reporting on Tyrone Love and the rumor that he was shot as some sort of witness intimidation tactic in the case of the shooting at Vito’s on Madison St. a few weeks ago. Or the rumor that there is already a group of gangbangers headed out to retaliate for Love’s shooting.

  6. Remember in Beyond Thunderdome when that guy had “pig killer” carved into his skin and he tossed into an underground chain gang shoveling pig shit? Just for killing a single pig? To feed his family?

    I’m not saying that was right. Probably that was unjust. Not advocating anything unjust. All I’m saying is, hey, would that guy have killed that duck in Ballard if we operated that way? Probably he would not have.

  8. Funny word play, but I really do feel bad for the ducks–dead and living–and the man w/ the duck pond. The duck pond sounds beautiful. Peace to all.

  9. #6: Simply not true! From the P-I:

    “Despite his death in a neighborhood recently plagued by gang shootings, Love, 26, was no gang-banger, said a chorus of those who have known him for years. He worked as a party promoter for Vibrant Entertainment 206, a company he founded with several buddies three years ago that aims to attract a young, professional crowd.”

  10. @10

    You don’t have to be a gang banger to be a witness to a shooting that some real gangbangers want to intimidate/eliminate (for snitchin?)

    And maybe the G’s that want to avenge his shooting were just takin’ up his cause after he tried to help?

    Just wonderin? And asking for some good reporting to validate or debunk.

  11. This isn’t Pilling’s Pond, is it? That’s in Licton Springs, not Ballard, but it’s the only thing I can think of that meets the description. Anyone messing with Pilling’s Pond should be cut up and dumped into the — er, given a stern talking-to (almost got dickish there for a second).

  12. It’s not Pilling’s. I know the pond referenced in the article, I live just a few blocks away, and have on and off for about 12 years. I used to take my son there to feed the ducks often when we lived right around the corner.
    It’s a cool pond, lots of ducks.

  18. To those urban ducks wishing to avoid the hazards associated with nefarious neck-wringing, might I suggest the vaguely remote yet nostalgically idyllic Lake Effoffington.

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