BREAKIN THE LAW!!!

Today my friend, Tandy & I took our boys up to the Oquirrh Lake with the plan of jogging around it for exercise and then eating a picnic lunch there.

So we took some bread to feed the ducks that we'd seen up there the other day and thought the boys would love it.

We get there and unload everything. We head over to the dock and start feeding the ducks. They were so funny. The ducks were following the boys EVERYWHERE and the boys were making them chase them - - mind you, these boys are 9, 8 and 7, not little kids really.

All of the sudden, some old guy comes barreling over shouting at the boys. Tandy says, "what's he saying?" I'm like "I don't know." As he gets closer he's shouting - in a pronounced Boston accent, 'don't feed the ducks!' like it was suicidal or something

So I turned to the boys and say, "Did you guys hear what he said?" And so we stood there dumbfounded like who doesn't feed ducks at the lake? Are they nuclear? Will they blow up?

So he starts in on "you can't feed the ducks, they'll chase your kids and bite off their fingers, ducks will follow if they see your bread bag . . . blah blah blah" and I said, "where does it say you can't feed the ducks?"
He's like, "Well, we don't have signs right now." So I'm like, "Well, then how are we supposed to know." It was very polite. There wasn't any animosity or anything.

Right in the middle of this, a SECURITY officer walks over and says, "Is there a problem here?"

Apparently the problem is we're not supposed to feed ducks at a lake where there is NO SIGN saying so and Jr security guy here looks young enough to be in high school and like he borrowed his daddy's badge & jacket.
The old guy pulls him aside and tells him whatever while I turn back to Tandy trying not to laugh or be sarcastic. It's too funny to us, we're trying not to snicker behind their backs at how ridiculous this sounds.

The security officer mentions, "well there IS a sign but it's over on the other side of the lake."
Yeah, if I was Bionic Woman maybe I would've known about it.

So here's the funny thing too. We said sorry and they backed off, but then the security officer tailed us for the rest of the time! WITH BINOCULARS and everything! You would've thought Tandy & I were public enemy number 1.

So if you see our pictures at the Information pavilion at Daybreak, or the swimming pool, or even Oquirrh Lake with our minor offense of 'Feeding Ducks' - please know we are friendly and unarmed at all times - - who knows - there may be a reward for turning us in :).