The Water Bowl: 80-Year-Old Woman Faces Criminal Charges for Feeding Ducks

12/09/2011 at 12:20 PM EST

80-Year-Old Woman Faces Criminal Charges for Feeding Ducks
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After repeatedly violating a local ordinance that prohibits feeding birds, an 80-year-old Massachusetts woman is facing criminal charges. Residents complained she would take shopping carts full of food to give to ducks at a pond. "I will be the first 80-year-old woman in the world who was thrown in jail for feeding the animals," she says. –ABC News

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