This just in: Why did the ducklings cross the road?

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Fourteen ducklings were rescued from an Orange County storm drain early this afternoon, making for a feathery disruption to traffic along West Street and Lampson Avenue in Garden Grove.

After a driver reported the trapped ducklings, two animal control officers and a police officer arrived at the scene, using a rope and a tilted trap to coax them out of the sewer, said Jennifer Phillips, director of Orange County Animal Care Services.

The officers stopped traffic to walk the ducklings, along with their mother, across the street to the rainwater basin they had been living in, about a quarter-mile away.

‘Once they got to the basin, the father duck joined the family and now all of them are safe,’ Phillips said.

So how did so many ducklings get in the sewer in the first place?

They crossed the road, Phillips said.

But as the chicken joke goes, why?

‘Who knows?’ says Phillips.

KNBC has a photo gallery of the rescue.

--Tony Barboza