Ducks Rescued at Carnegie Mellon

The Frat Boy News daily campus police report for Wednesday:

Carnegie Melon University (compiled by Post-Gazette.com)

It didn't take rocket science -- or computer science -- to rescue seven baby ducks that fell through a sewer grate on the Carnegie Mellon University campus Monday night.

It did take ingenuity and a lot of patience on the part of two campus police officers and three security guards who spent 90 minutes rolling in the mud to reunite the mallard ducklings with their mother.

A Carnegie Mellon student alerted officials to the problem at 9:30 p.m.

When an adult mallard and 12 very small yellow and black ducklings walked across a sewer grate, seven fell in. Campus police and security officers removed the metal grate, but could not reach the ducklings, that were 10 feet below ground level.

Campus officers devised a low-tech solution that included a bucket and long piece of rope. That part was easy. The hard part was getting the ducklings into the bucket.