New Hampshire driver stops to help ducklings, gets $100 ticket
New Hampshire driver stops to help ducklings, gets $100 ticket
A New Hampshire woman who called police after stopping in a highway median to help some stranded ducklings plans to fight a $100 ticket.
Hallie Bibeau of Newfields tells WMUR-TV she was driving east on Route 101 on Friday when she had to slam on her brakes to avoid hitting the ducklings. She says their mother and several of the ducklings were hit by a car. The mother died.
"I could hear them peeping, and I looked over the right hand side of the road, and I saw that their mom had been hit and was dead on the side, so I couldn't just continue on," she said. She told WMUR.com that while she waited, she saw a few of them "try to go to the westbound lane and got run over, and it was terrible to see."
The 33-year-old Bibeau called 911, got out of her car and captured the two surviving ducklings.
A state trooper issued Bibeau a ticket for stopping in the median. Police say median stops are for emergencies, and they didn't consider this to be one.
Officials say the ducklings were taken to a wildlife rescue in Maine, where one of them died.
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I hope she wins the case. She was doing a very kind thing..
What a crappy deal. I hope that she wins in court as well.
That's what you get for doing the right thing..
No good deed goes unpunished.
Very true!!
Thank you Buzz..such fitting words.
I sure does. Maybe the officer will get some time off.. (without pay)for thisstupid act.
I totally agree MM.
Had her actions led to an accident that hurt or killed other drivers, this would be a very different article. Oh, absolutely!