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REDBRIDGE: Boy's duck theft attempt 'to save ill mum'
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| PC Iqbal Sheryar at the spot where a youth was questioned over the stealing of a duck for medicinal purposes |
A boy was caught trying to steal a duck to 'cure' his terminally ill mother.
The youngster was found by a warden as he prepared to plunge into the duck pond, in Valentine's Park, Ilford, to catch a plump mallard to cook for his mother's dinner.
After being handed over to Redbridge Parks Police (RPP), the boy, who was born in Afghanistan, explained that a priest in his native country had told him his sick mother would die unless he fed her with duck meat.
Parks Constable (PC) Iqbal Sheryar, who speaks fluent Urdu, met with an angry response when he told the boy to buy a bird from a nearby branch of Sainsbury's instead.
He said: "This young guy was really upset when we told him he couldn't take a duck from the pond, and begged us to let him jump in and grab one.
"My colleague, Sgt Stephen Warr, is a former paramedic, and we explained to him that feeding his mum duck meat wouldn't cure any kind of illness.
"I don't think he understood that it's illegal in this country to take birds and animals from our parks."
The teenager was released without charge after the bizarre incident, which has prompted RPP chief John Boylin to warn park users of the consequences of stealing and killing the borough's wildlife.
His officers, who enforce council bylaws in Redbridge's green spaces, are about to erect multilingual warning signs in the borough's parks ordering people not to poach.
He said: "This was a particularly strange incident, but it is not an isolated case because we had problems last summer with people jumping into some of our ponds and stealing carp.
"Many of these people then barbecued the fish next to the pond, seemingly unaware that they were breaking the law.
"We hope to try and tackle this problem by erecting signs in the parks which will list the byelaws in a number of languages so that people know what they can and can't do."
12:09pm Tuesday 18th March 2008
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CommentPosted by: Tigs on 1:42pm Tue 18 Mar 08
This is an example of how foreign people have such different rules and traditions to us.
It's about time that something was done. What about all the swans being eaten? Why can't they just go to the supermarkets like everyone else has to?
This is an example of how foreign people have such different rules and traditions to us.
It's about time that something was done. What about all the swans being eaten? Why can't they just go to the supermarkets like everyone else has to?
Posted by: Dave, London on 2:12pm Tue 18 Mar 08
"A boy was caught trying to steal a duck to 'cure' his terminally ill mother"
Great Tigs how proud you must be, to turn a story about a kids whos going to lose his mother into an issue of immigration.
"A boy was caught trying to steal a duck to 'cure' his terminally ill mother"
Great Tigs how proud you must be, to turn a story about a kids whos going to lose his mother into an issue of immigration.
Posted by: Tigs on 4:31pm Tue 18 Mar 08
Oh shut up! The reason I said that was because it was not going to be a cure in the first place but an old wives tale.
I am proud to be British and I welcome anyone who respects and adheres to out rules and laws but many that come here do not. Either because they haven't been told, don't understand or simply don't care.
I am fed up with sanctimonious gits coming on here and telling me that I am basically not entitled to my own opinion.
Maybe I care more about animals than people as they don't make their own misery. Humans inflict it on them in the main.
Get off your soapbox and leave me to say what I wish. If you don't like it, lump it mate! You're entitled to your opinion but so am I.
Oh shut up! The reason I said that was because it was not going to be a cure in the first place but an old wives tale.
I am proud to be British and I welcome anyone who respects and adheres to out rules and laws but many that come here do not. Either because they haven't been told, don't understand or simply don't care.
I am fed up with sanctimonious gits coming on here and telling me that I am basically not entitled to my own opinion.
Maybe I care more about animals than people as they don't make their own misery. Humans inflict it on them in the main.
Get off your soapbox and leave me to say what I wish. If you don't like it, lump it mate! You're entitled to your opinion but so am I.
Posted by: terry, watford on 7:48pm Tue 18 Mar 08
Bloody immigrants, they come over here and steal our ducks.
Bloody immigrants, they come over here and steal our ducks.
Posted by: arthur, chavdon on 9:42pm Tue 18 Mar 08
Dave is right, it's nothing to with immigration it's about.....er...mmm..
..er.....oh help me out here!
Dave is right, it's nothing to with immigration it's about.....er...mmm..
..er.....oh help me out here!
Posted by: mrs moose, over here on 11:38pm Tue 18 Mar 08
All this ducking and diving....what's new!
All this ducking and diving....what's new!
Posted by: Bob, London on 12:58pm Wed 19 Mar 08
Tigs, you're such a ****.
Tigs, you're such a ****.
Posted by: Tigs on 3:14pm Wed 19 Mar 08
How very eloquent of you! Did I personally insult you? No I did not!! It just shows your mentality doesn't it Bob!
I suppose I could be seeing as I have one!
How very eloquent of you! Did I personally insult you? No I did not!! It just shows your mentality doesn't it Bob!
I suppose I could be seeing as I have one!
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