Hi 68° | Lo 44°  Editorial: In Nashua, a flap over dead ducks
If veteran Nashua Democratic Rep. David Campbell deliberately
mowed down the ducks in front of Nashua’s Crowne Plaza Hotel
with his BMW last month, he’s committed a murder most fowl. If
he truly expected the ducks to move, he’s guilty of negligent
duckicide and a stunning lack of understanding, for one who’s
spent so much time in the State House, of animal behavior.  Mrs.
Mallard and her eight ducklings, they of Make Way for Ducklings,
needed the aid of kindly Boston police officers to safely make
their way back and forth from their home on an island in a
lagoon in Boston’s Public Garden. And every day, an official
duck master marches the famed ducks of Memphis’s Peabody Hotel
from their home on the hotel’s roof to an elevator and then down
to the marble fountain in the lobby for their daily swim. They
could not make the trip safely on their own.  Rep. Campbell,
crows and blue jays yield. Geese, ducks, moose and teenagers of
a certain age and disp