Especially around Victoria these days, you heard about housing problems, and youвЂ™re hearing about homeless problems and all these things. вЂњOnline in general, itвЂ™s often a very negative place. Sign up for our newsletter to get breaking news and daily digests sent to your email.ДЄ video showing his wifeвЂ™s joy upon receiving the duckana was shared by countless Reddit users - a welcome distraction, Martin says, from the doom and gloom that tends to overtake the online community. So it was inevitable that she found out and she came out of the shower one day holding her photo to me with the post openвЂ¦So I pulled it out of its hiding place and gave it to her and she was ecstatic.

вЂњYou look at the Victoria BC subreddit and thatвЂ™s all it is, itвЂ™s just ducknanas. What I didnвЂ™t expect though, was for this post to go so viral,вЂќ he said. вЂњMy plan was to give it to my wife for her birthday, which is this Sunday, and I had it tucked away in the house and I thought everything would go well. MartinвЂ™s own post about racing down to buy one of the last two duckanas was also a hit, generating hundreds of comments, but it also backfired on him. Over the last couple of days there have been countless posts, including MartinвЂ™s, celebrating the quirky - or should it be quacky? - pieces of art. вЂњIt took off and now thereвЂ™s memes and GIFs, or however you pronounce those, and people are buying them.вЂќ And then me with it, crammed into my tiny Ford Ranger, and posted on the Victoria BC subreddit,вЂќ he said. So I took a picture of it, of me holding it and then me at the self-checkout with it. вЂњAs soon as I saw the size of it, I knew it was ridiculous. (Submitted)ДЄnd what better way to do that than a massive statue of a banana with a duck head? Martin (left) worked as a bomb disposal tech for the Canadian Armed Forces for years. Luke Martin proudly poses with a duckana statue he snagged at the Tillicum London Drugs. вЂњShe said I want one, and for the life of me, I canвЂ™t tell you if she was serious or not. вЂњWhen I saw the post on Reddit of the ducknana, and somebody making a comment about how you know, with so much panic buying going on, thereвЂ™s only two ducknanas left, I sent it to her,вЂќ Martin said.

вЂњSMH all this panic buying,вЂќ the poster writes.Д«ut what began as a joke turned into a run on duckanas as some raced to snap up the heavily discounted statues. The ducking madness began with a post on the Victoria subreddit two days ago, showing two remaining duckana statues at the Tillicum London Drugs. ItвЂ™s not clear where the portmanteau-turned-reality originated, but Dubai has showcased street art of the slippery fowl as far back as 2018.Д«ut on the world wide webbed, people are seemingly discovering the unusual ornaments for the first time. CHEK News Ethics, Standards and Corrections PolicyДЄ bunch of quacks have taken over an online community in Victoria, leading locals to keep their eyes peeled for a new shipment of вЂduckanasвЂ™ after they sold out at area stores.Дuckanas, as you can imagine, combine the head of a duck with the body of a banana.

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