Kicker: Fair weather friend

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NICK EICHER, HOST: Plans in Western P-A got a little quacked-up last weekend. Crowds had flocked to a little amusement park near Pittsburgh called Idlewild, in part to see a six-story, 700-pound inflatable billed as the World’s Largest Rubber Duck.

Jase Wiarda told us he’s hauled the duck coast-to-coast for four years now.

WIARDA: We bring people in from all over, and everybody's, you know, they see it, and it's … there’re instant smiles. Everybody's always really happy. [thunder rolls in]

Ah, but not everybody, not all the time. A storm rolled in and for safety reasons the duck had to… well, the duck had to duck.

WIARDA: We have to take it down before the wind gets too high—otherwise it’s unsafe to everybody around.

Not popped, just deflated—like a few disappointed fans. Because in the case of foul weather, this fowl’s not going to float.

It’s The World and Everything In It.

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