Whether it was fowl play or a decoy operation, the result was the same Thursday morning when a CHP officer and a group of good Samaritans came together to save a duck and her duckling after they became trapped by traffic on a busy freeway in Mission Valley.
An NBC 7 producer was headed to work a little before 9 a.m. when she spotted a CHP patrol car ahead of her on Interstate 8 east near the Hotel Circle exit. The officer made a rolling stop of the freeway traffic but apparently couldn’t locate the ducks, so he tried a second time, then got out and tried to get the pair to safety.
Her news instincts kicking in, the producer snatched up her cell phone and started recording video just in time to see, between two cars, a duckling go running by in the left-hand breakdown lane, followed soon after by the CHP officer…