Nobody here is Sister Mary Elephant. It got posted on our site from a very convincing viral email. We didn’t change a word of it, that’s word for word the way it came in. It’s been highly talked about on our blog by people over the world…. we’ve had more than 10,000 hits on this one post. I wish we had put some kind of a damn Google ad on it – maybe selling Purina Duck Chow. I think that the photos are real. There was a subsequent post on our website explaining the oddness of it all. There was even a thing about it on the local San Antonio news.

A lot of the readers of Whippleworld are from San Antonio so we became interested in it from an “urban legend” angle. Meaning the changing of the venue by whoever did it. And why? Are San Antonians so lame we have to highjack human interest stories from Spokane? Or did somebody from some other city frame us because the Riverwalk sounded more quaint than Spokane?

So, the bottom line is we didn’t write it or start it, we just posted what a member of our community blog sent in. And the story of it has become a story. Look down to “variations” on this urban legends myth busing site: http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/amazingduck.asp

If you have any interest in the correct information:

1) The “hero” in the story isn’t named Michael R., his name is Joel Armstrong.
2) He is not an accounting clerk, he is a loan officer.
3) He doesn’t work at Frost Bank, he works at Sterling Bank.
4) The incident with the ducks didn’t occur in San Antonio, Texas, it happened in Spokane, Washington.
5) The story (without the inaccuracies) wasn’t written by Sister Mary-Joanna Huegle; it was written by Joel Armstrong’s sister, Candace Mumm.
6) It didn’t happen in May, 2009; it occurred in April, 2008.
7) No police officers were involved.

http://blogs.mysanantonio.com/weblogs/downtown/2008/09/hoax-alert-these-ducks-arent-f.html