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Two Men End Up In Court In A Row Over Rescuing A Duck At MacDonald’s That Turned To A Fistfight
Two friends fell out at one’s 40th birthday party in a row, over a duck, they rescued from McDonald’s in Chester.
The two spotted the bird and helped it leave the restaurant but then started arguing over it before a fight ensued.
Neil Edwards-Cecil, 40, was celebrating his birthday with a friend Lee Gaudoin, 30, they had a misunderstanding and broke into a fight.
Gaudoin said: ‘I don’t know how it escalated from there’.
When the police arrived, they found Gaudoin swearing and loudly talking of ‘how he saved a duck’
Lee lunged at an officer’s stab vest and kicked out as he tried to resist arrest but an officer hit him with a blast of captor spray
Edwards-Cecil was then warned to bark off after trying to push through to help his friend.
When asked to curb his swearing, Cecil responded with ‘I don’t give a s**t before officers apprehend him too.
The visibly intoxicated men later charged with abusive behavior and resisting a constable.
They were given conditional discharges and each told to pay a court fine of 85 pounds.
The two men ended up in court when a drunken row over a duck they rescued from inside McDonald’s escalated into a fistfight.
Adam Antoszkiw defending Gaudoin said the incident was ‘completely stupid’ and out of character for both men.
He added, ‘He goes into McDonald’s and there is a duck in there but for whatever reason, he gets very aerated.’
Mr. Antoszkiw explained to the court that Lee was a mechanic who lived a very quiet life with his dog but on this day “alcohol got the better of him” in what was “very much an isolated incident.”
Edwards-Cecil, defending himself, said: ‘I just want to apologize for my behavior. I had gone out for my 40th birthday, gone to McDonald’s to get some food and there was a duck. ‘I don’t know how it escalated from there. To be honest I am ashamed for the way I have acted.’
Edwards told the magistrates that the incident cost him his job as an MOT mechanic.
He added: “This will never happen again, I am not like this.”
Both men, who were said to have reeked of booze, later admitted abusive behavior and resisting a constable.
They were each given a 12-month conditional discharge and told to pay 85 pounds in court fines.
Magistrate Fiona Crane also let them off with a reminder; “I hope this has been a lesson to you.”
