Un conseil interdit le pain rassis pour que les canards « cessent de se croire tout permis »

Wrexham County Borough Council approved a notice prohibiting leftover household bread on municipal water after a parks officer told a committee that local ducks had ‘developed expectations’ and were ‘becoming entitled’.

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The minutes do not allege injury, pollution data, or a veterinary emergency. They allege an attitude. The remedy is a ban on a foodstuff already discouraged by wildlife charities on nutritional grounds — restated here as a question of manners.

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A councillor asked whether ‘entitled’ should remain in the public record. It remained. The notice asks residents to take uneaten bread home. Ducks, the officer said, would in time ‘reset’.

YES IT'S REAL checked the minutes against the notice. Both exist. Neither is satire. Advice against bread is not in dispute. Whether a duck can be snobbish is not a planning matter, and was treated as one.

The council did not vote on seed or grain. A follow-up paper on ‘appropriate offerings’ was commissioned and has not been filed.

Readers looking for a hoax will be disappointed. The joke is the minute. The minute is real.