A Colorado police officer stopped traffic at a busy intersection to help a family of ducks cross the road safely. This isn’t the first time its officers have ended up helping ducks in town. It’s also probably not the last, given that local wildlife in the area is currently nesting and moving with their young. And who wouldn’t help a duck family get to safety?
According to the Westminster Police Department, the encounter happened at the intersection of Yates Street and Sheridan Boulevard in Colorado. An officer paused traffic at the intersection while the duck family made its way across. A second department employee, riding along, captured the moment on video.
The department’s social-media post described the moment with a touch of wry self-awareness, noting that the agency was starting to wonder whether the same ducks it had pulled out of a storm drain on an earlier call elsewhere in town had simply found a new way to make the news. There is no confirmation that the ducks at Yates and Sheridan were the same family. The department said it was nonetheless wondering whether word was getting around in the duck community…