Fish Jacking - only in Miami

I have seen and heard of all sorts of jackings - your standard, run-of-the-mill muggings, car-jackings, purse snatchings, etc.

But it wasn't until now that I saw a fish-jacking.

I was walking on the sidewalk along the marina across the street from the Herald - right on Biscayne Bay. I walk there a few times a week to get coffee and clear my head.

Anyway, on the way to the coffee shop, I see a duck floating near the docks, sticking its head under water. It's fishing. Finally, after the third dive or so, the duck surfaces with a fish in its mouth. It seemed to savor it for a minute, and then the attack happened.

A huge stork swoops down and starts beating the crap out of the duck with its wings. It seemed like five minutes, but was really about 20 seconds. By the end the of the beat down the duck was swaying like a Weeble Wobble.

The duck dropped the fish. The stork snatched and swooped away. I was half expecting the stork to pull a gun.

It probably happens all the time in nature. But it's more fun for me to say "Only in Miami."