Episode 4: Reddit's Most Satisfying Revenge
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What is the introductory premise of the episode?
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So here's my story. Back in May of nineteen ninety, there was an unseasonably late snowstorm. A few days after it snowed, I was riding my bike and I found a baby duckling all by itself near a river. There was no mama duck around. So I put it inside my shirt to keep it warm and I brought it home on my bike. My mother thought the duckling would die because it was so small, cold and shivering. But I put it under light, and after a while it dried off and started hopping around and peeping. It was so cute. Follow me around like a puppy. I called it Philip. Because it sounded like it was saying Philip. Shall it? No. Whenever it peeps. So after a few weeks, I figured I oughta teach you to swim and eat stuff in lakes.
So I started bringing it to a small local beach. Philip did well. He swam around, ate weeds and snails, and everyone at the beach loved him. Around here is where my trouble started. After I brought Philip to the beach several times, the lifeguard told me that his boss, the director of Parks and Rec, will be known henceforth as Stuffed Shirt, had told him that there was this city ordinance against people bringing pets to city parks. I tried to explain to the lifeguard that it was only for a few weeks, and then the duck would be grown enough and able to live on its own, but he didn't care. I was upset. How is I going to teach the duck to live on its own? I went to the library and got out the large blue books of city ordinances and looked up the relative ordinance.
That's when I discovered something interesting. There was one ordinance that prohibited bringing dogs into city parks, and another that prohibited bringing horses into city parks. both of which I see happening fairly often, by the way. But there's no ordinance against bringing ducks into city parks. So I went home and I called stuff shirt. However, it being a Friday afternoon, he wasn't in. So his secretary answered the phone. I told her what had happened and what the ordinance actually said. And told her to tell Stuff Shirt that I would be bringing my duck to the beach anytime I felt like it. Well apparently when Stuff Shirt heard this. His head nearly exploded. He called me back and told me that he had had a conference with the city attorney about my duck.
How does the narrator’s duck‑themed revenge story begin?
According to him, the city attorney had decided that the law should be interpreted to refer to all domestic or pet animals, not merely dogs or horses. Then he said he had called the Department of Natural Resources, because I was not supposed to have a duck. Now, please note the following at this point. One attorneys are not privileged to interpret the law. Only judges are supposed to do that. And the law was not ambiguous such that it required any interpretation. One specifically said dogs, the other specifically said horses. And two. Note that my duck was referred to as a domestic animal. Well, a few days later, the Department of Natural Resources agent shows up at my house, and he marches right into my backyard without ringing the doorbell and surely without a warrant.
We'll call this guy Dick, because as you'll see, that's what he is. This guy wasn't even from our local municipality. Stuff shirt had gotten him to come over from another city. I was in my backyard at the time feeding Philip, and Dick proceeds to read me the riot act. First he tells me that my duck is a wood duck, which is a wild animal, after a stuffed shirt had previously referred to it as a domestic animal. And even this was a lie because I learned later that my duck was a mallard, which can be considered either wild or domestic, depending on the circumstances. Then Dick proceeds to tell me that I can't have a wood duck without a game farm license, and that I couldn't get a game farm license unless I had 40 acres of land.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the introductory premise of the episode?
0:00–2:55
2
How does the narrator’s duck‑themed revenge story begin?
2:55–7:08
3
What legal loophole does the narrator use to keep the duck in the park?
7:08–14:09
4
How does the narrator get revenge on the park director and game warden?
14:09–20:08
5
What is the fallout for the park director after the duck incident?
20:08–22:56
6
How does the narrator’s army‑related revenge story unfold?
22:56–23:51