Weird Wide Web

First in a series of news stories too strange to be false. After long, serious posts and pontification about weighty issues, sometimes we need to be reminded what an extraordinary and amazing place the Universe is.

From the ABC :

An armada of toy ducks is expected to make landfall in Britain within weeks, at the end of an epic 11 year voyage from the Pacific Ocean.

The little yellow ducks were washed overboard from a container ship in 1992.

They have since floated round the United States, through the Arctic and past Greenland.

The remnants of the fading flotilla are now heading down the eastern seaboard of the United States, although a break away group has been spotted heading for Britain.

The American company that made the ducks is offering money to anyone finding them onshore in the US, though the offer is not being made to any British duck finders.

Blatent discrimination.