If you peered into the Chicago River on Thursday, you might have thought it had rained rubber duckies, but it was actually Chicago's 14th annual Ducky Derby.
Rubber ducks are dropped into the Chicago River to start the annual Ducky Derby.Exactly 63,133 rubber ducks were dumped into the river at the Wabash Bridge to raise money for the Illinois Special Olympics, according to the organization. Last year, the derby raised over $425,000 for the charity. Competitors buy ducks, paying $5 for one or up to $1,000 for 240. The iconic bath toys race down the Chicago River to win prizes for their owners, depending on how they place.
Can we find new things to do with our time
Wtf if wrong with urbanites?
The left and environmentalism
Yes!! More plastic in our waters!
But you know...beef and plastic straws are the problem...obviously not dumping a ton of rubber ducks into a river or anything🤷♂️🙄
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Looks like big stupid mess to me.
This should be done to raise campaign funds to oust the elected officials that allow socioeconomic conditions to deteriorate in Chicago's inner cities.
wasnt this nearly 2 weeks ago? i'd have thought would have been some new news by now like fredo
waste of money, build houses for the homeless
These people are really sick. What a great idea,, to throw more plastic garbage into the oceans,
That is more like it CNN, simple news you and your viewers can handle.
But no reports on Angel Moms who lost children to illegals or FISA Gate. We get, Rubber Duckies!
Even CNN social media dept is addicted to repeat useless material for more than 30 days.
Are they made from plasticpollution ?
Look like littering to me
Aweee what a nice story, here is another nice story......
Rubber duckies are bad for the environment. Says every leftie.
veitchtweets
we have a serious plastic problem in the world is this necessary
Are they really dumping all that plastic into the river? WTF!
Slow news day This was last weekend! 😏
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For each one that isn’t collected the city should receive a fine.
LukeBumbico
What’s the apple vacation?
AKimCampbell Rubber? I hope they are not deliberately dumping plastic in2 open bodies of water It looks like they are. EPA
What? Have Chicago gone totally nuts? What a shame 👎🏻
Why is SesameErnie not the Grand Marshal of this event?
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Plastic. Great for the environment 👍 PeteButtigieg 🇺🇸2020 Not a fan of non-recyclable products. environment
What happens to these *plastic* ducks after this?
Is this cleaned up afterward or just left in the water ?! 😱
Everyone read the article before complaining about the environmental impact, they collect all the ducks and reuse them.
Im trying SO HARD to avoid plastic straws and you raise money by this sht:)
Really?! Rubber ducks in rivers in an age of plasticpollution...
....why? 🤯
THAT'S IT DUMP MORE PLASTIC IN THE RIVER.
How's that work for the environment lefties?
Wtf?!
🎶 Rubber ducky, you're the one You make bath time so much fun...🎶
Why the hell are they throwing so much plastic into water? Doesn't make sense! Where are the environmentalists?
I hope the rubber predators take all these rubber ducks from the water.
I suppose they pick them up later somehow..? Or they add up to the billion tons of plastic that water already has?😡
How it comes initially to this regular, later on, irregular pattern. Some children in the crowd of attracted people may ask their parents exactly this question!!!
Reading the article helps:. After the race, the ducks are collected and reused for future races
That’s just plain racist. RubberDucksLivesMatter
But the rest of us SHOULDN'T use plastic straws 🙄
Crazy event!
Seems pollute-y.
Omg the environmental impact!🤭
Can't enforce existing gun laws, but they can dump plastic into their river.
Im sorry but this is just quackers! Sorry 😐 couldn’t resist , I’ll leave now 😂
h_s_m143 بطتج 😂
please clean these shit down!
Nice bit of gratuitous plastic pollution
Dumb
This is why we can't have nice, non-biodegradable, polluting things.
Whos picking those up 😂
Throwing plastic in water? How come no environmentalist protested this?
Libs want to ruin everything
And there we are trying to avoid dumping plastic in the water as no doubt not all these ducks would be recovered
Are they biodegradable?
😀😀
but why..
THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THAT ALL THE DUCKS ARE COLLECTED AT THE END. I dont know why people just assume a sentence saying they are collected means All of them are collected. Some Proceeds should deff go to environmental causes.
The waters as yellow as the ducks
Is this not plastic pollution?
Welcome to Trumps new America letting big tech pollute our rivers and streams with rubber in 3...2...1...
This is many reasons why I love Chicago
um, is this ok for the environment? (serious Q -- do they fish them all out at some point?)
i hope they clean up this water after the race
WTF Chicago!!!!!! we're here trying to reduce the use of plastic as much as possible and you there throwing rubber duckies into the river!!!!!!! we're drowning in plastic ppl!
There has to be a better way to do this charity event, this is just dumb.
Idiots.
Recycled?
Because every river needs a ton of plastic dumped in it annually.
Olá você poderia observar como está a política no Brazil?Temos um presidente que não se preocupa com meio ambiente,principalmente a Amazônia.beijos
One has to wonder... How many unsolved murders did all those those rubber duckies cost?
What political party do they belong to?
Save your country TRUMP ! CNN is loco !
Ok...fine...who cleans up the rubber duckies after the duckie derby?
Oy Vey 'ducks unlimited'
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