A prominent Darwin resident has been attacked by a plump duck . He is agronomist Robert Wesley-Smith who is sporting a swollen big toe after the duck unexpectedly dropped in out of the blue . The duck was well and truly frozen, way past its use by date , when it fell out of his fridge onto his foot . As he described the incident , being 77, when you are attacked by a rock hard Woolies duck , it is hard to jump out of the way .
As stated earlier, the quacker had been in the fridge a long time , possibly one of two that waddled down Noah's Ark gangplank after the big Wet .
Wes bled like the proverbial stuck pig and could not wear a throng afterwards . He quaintly refers to thongs , which he mainly wears , as Japanese boots. As a result , he was barefooted when he went shopping and a woman asked him why he was unshod, with an odd looking toe .
On being informed, apart from giggling , the woman said she had eaten two of the ducks and found there was very little meat on them . Wes got revenge by cooking the duck and found it had lots of meat - the luck of the fall/draw . It is hard to understand why a duck would attack Wes as the billabong on his rural property , known as Lake Wesley, attracts a lot of waterfowl , including Whistling Ducks .
Meanwhile , he will flash his foot before a medically qualified quack next week .
While loitering outside a Howard Springs medical centre , Wes came across an old friend , Peter Pan Quee , who about 1963 had presented a departing member of the Animal Industry and Agriculture Branch with a shotgun , its barrel bent backwards .
During his time in the job , the departing officer had been chased several times by a wild buffalo-obviously not Mick Dundee . The bent barrel on the shotgun would have enabled him to shoot a chasing buff while on the run .
Wes recently arrived on Magnetic Island. During his low flying visit he expressed concern about the plight of Curlews , inspected an eagle's nest at Alma Bay , admired Wallabies in Presto Park and its artistic dome of birds made from defrosted stainless steel , some bent and corroding in the process, none of which fortunately fell on his dancing gear .
