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By DuckyKiller - 20/06/2009 12:11 - United States

Today, I was at a pond taking pictures with my new camera. I saw a mama duck leading her babies around and decided to get in closer to take a picture. Mama duck got spooked and led her babies too close to a waterfall escaping. One fell off. It never surfaced. FML

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By Anonymous - 26/08/2023 14:00 - United States

Today, I tried to take a cute selfie with a majestic swan by a lake. Just as I was about to take the pic, the swan suddenly got visibly bored of my shit and chased me into the water. I emerged from the lake looking like a soggy, defeated swamp beast. FML

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By fml...really - 27/11/2009 07:45 - United States

Today, we took the kids to the local pond near my sister-in-law's to feed the geese. I hadn't been there before, and thought I'd take a picture. I turned around to adjust my camera, but the geese, realizing the feast had ended, took flight. Before I could react I was showered with goose shit. FML

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By Anonymous - 07/02/2023 16:00

Today, I tried to take a picture next to a peacock, but ended up running away with a face and mouth full of feathers. FML

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By newly passed, newly grassed - 06/12/2014 17:04 - United Kingdom - Birmingham

Today, while driving home, I swerved to avoid turning a duck and her babies into roadkill. Another car was coming around a sharp bend at the time and swerved to avoid hitting me. In the end, we both ran our cars off the road, and he took out several ducks in the process. FML

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By Quackers - 11/04/2012 15:39 - United States - Denver

Today, while running in the park, I noticed some ducks in a pond. I stopped to look at them and began quacking at them, to see if they would react. This would have been OK had I not been wearing ear-buds, blasting music, making me unable to realize just how loud I was quacking. With people all around. FML

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By Anonymous - 28/08/2011 11:29 - Australia

Today, I bought a new goldfish. While leaving my fish on my balcony to go get fish food, I hear a loud squawk and splash, I race outside to see a bird flying off with my fish. FML

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By Mariah Barnes - 24/07/2020 08:01

Today, I saved a baby bird from the site I work on. It was the runt and did not have any feathers and was neglected by the mother. I took care of it all day at work and planned on taking it to a wildlife reserve after work. Two minutes away from the reserve, we hit a pothole and I dropped it. It died. FML

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By Anonymous - 30/09/2024 12:00 - United States

Today, I was tasked with taking a photo of my best friend getting engaged. As her boyfriend got down on one knee, I got so nervous that I fumbled the camera. It landed right in the lake. I didn’t get a single picture, and now I owe them a new Canon EOS R10. FML

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Good boy

By PrinceOfBritain - 14/05/2015 02:41 - United States - Chesapeake

Today, I was walking my dog through a park with a lake. My dog was swimming in said lake, and then appeared to be having trouble keeping his head up. I put my phone and keys on the ground and waded to my dog. He was fine, but I turned around in time to see someone run off with my stuff. FML

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By Rick - 14/03/2010 13:36 - United Kingdom

Today, I fell in a river with a £700 camera, a £200 lens, and an iPhone while trying to rescue a 50 pence ball for my dog. FML

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xNatsuki 0

Saturday 20 June 2009 20:08

Oh my.. Now I'm sad.

teehee520 0

Saturday 20 June 2009 20:03

D= Poor duck. But yeah, good job.

Comments

Dummie 0

Sunday 21 June 2009 6:31

I'm gonna go with that the OP didn't try to follow the ducks towards the waterfall with a brand new camera. However... if this is the case then they are brainless and entirely at fault!

kira_999 0

Monday 22 June 2009 6:34

sometimes zoom doesn't always work well enough to take GOOD pictures. You either have to get closer or get one of those giant lenses, but if you do the latter it might be blurry.

FlyingMonkey_fml 0

Sunday 21 June 2009 7:06

Should've tried saving it. YDI for doing nothing. Turn off the flash too.

wellchit 0

Sunday 21 June 2009 7:11

your new cam has a Zoom feature does it not?

lolzforfun228 3

Sunday 21 June 2009 7:13

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roflwaffle21 0

Sunday 21 June 2009 7:20

ROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLROFLwaffles anyone?...but thats just TERRIBLE...it never surfaced or you never saw it surface

KumoFF7 3

Sunday 21 June 2009 7:44

MURDERER!!!!

spidergirl41 0

Sunday 21 June 2009 7:47

I'm sorry, but did the poster say he/she pushed the duckling off the waterfall? Did they drown the duck by hand? No, I didn't think so. All of you morons calling the poster a killer, well, your just showing off your stupidity. She/he took a picture and nature took the duckling. It's life. You can't possibly blame the poster for that. Animals that eat raw meat, cannot think, can't talk, can't construct things like us just can't be labeled in the same catagories as we humans. As a rule, we ARE higher on the food chain! I love animals. But saying they deserve more respect than human is silly, as well is blaming this person for killing a duckling when they didn't do a darn thing but try to take a photo. So please, go eat your veggies and quit bothering innocent people.

that_guy01 0

Sunday 21 June 2009 7:51

natural selection. Stupid duck got to close and fell off. No more stupid duck to pass his genes on. Nature's way of cutting the fat. ****** pansies

barlessprison 16

Sunday 21 June 2009 8:14

Okay while everyone else is arguing on here, I just have to say, the mental image of this FML made me laugh.

kaly_fml 1

Sunday 21 June 2009 9:12

Dear god, my point of how stupid people are has been proved. Animals are easily frightened. It doesn't take much, and who said that op was up close to them (for people going "omgodzzzz its called zoom!")? Even at a good distance away, the duck could have gotten scared. Plus, zoom sucks on some cameras. The OP didn't try to scare them, nor did OP try to get the duck to fall and drown. I love animals as much as the next person, but seriously, getting on like you people are? Get over yourselves. And I bet half of you are hypocrites who don't mind killing bugs, and eat meat. Just because the baby duck is cute it's "oh my god, you murderer!". If it was some ugly animal I bet 90% of you wouldn't care. The duck probably would have died anyway. Maybe in a worse way. Maybe it would have been run over. Maybe ate by another animal. So there.