NYPD rescues duck from subway line

Tuesday, March 21, 2017

NEW YORK -- New York City officers found themselves chasing down a duck that strayed onto the tracks at a Brooklyn subway station Friday morning. Police arrived at the Jefferson Street station on the L line about 9 a.m. to find the duck down in the tracks. The New York Police Department's Transit Bureau posted video on Twitter of the officers carrying the bird along the platform and later releasing it in a park from a police-tape-wrapped box. The bird hopped out and waddled off down a path.

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