A man who brought his service duck to a Buc-ee's store in Tennessee has been banned from the chain, according to a YouTube video he posted.
Justin Wood brought his service mascot known as Wrinkle the Duck to the store, where they shopped and received a lot of positive attention from shoppers who wanted to pet Wrinkle and ask about her.
Wrinkle remained inside a stroller for most of the visit, occasionally bumping his beak at interested onlookers.
Wood recently posted the video to his YouTube channel “SeDUCKtive,” where he has dozens of videos of his excursions around the country with Wrinkle. The channel has 2.7 million subscribers and that video had almost 170,000 views as of Saturday night.
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A man who brought his service duck to a Buc-ee's store has now been banned by the chain. (Mel Melcon/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images/ACCESSWIRE/AP Newsroom)
After they entered the store, an employee approached them and told them that “service dogs” were the only animals allowed inside the store. “She's a service duck,” Wood responded.
They were allowed to continue until a second employee told him, “Pets are not allowed here.”
“Okay, but she's a service animal,” he said, adding that he could give the store three forms of identification to prove it. She was allowed to continue shopping until a third employee told her, “unfortunately her animal can't be here.”
“There are no pets here. Your animal, even if it is considered a service animal, must be restrained and can fly away,” he added. “If I were a dog, I'd have to be on a leash.”
“Can I put a leash on him?” he asked her, and the employee said he would be fine. At that point, Wood put Wrinkle on an imaginary leash and his duck continued to follow him around the store.
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The Buc-ee sign in Tennessee. (Google Maps)
While shopping, an employee informed him that “the police are outside.”
Once he left the store, a police officer approached him and said, “They are requesting that you be banned from the store,” adding that it was, in fact, the location of every Buc-ee and that he they would accuse. with breaking and entering whether he got caught in another duck or not.
The officer reminded Wood that it wasn't his decision during their friendly exchange.
“Who loves Buc-ee's?” Wood said in the video. “He doesn't love us. He's fine.”
He added with a shrug: “She did nothing but make everyone there happy.”
Wood ended the video by saying, “It's not an adventure if something doesn't go wrong… Every time you have some downs, you meet some ups and you wait around the corner.”
Buc-ee's pet policy says: “The Health Code prohibits live animals, including dogs, where food could potentially be contaminated. However, there are exceptions for service animals and animals working with law enforcement officers. police. For people with disabilities, specially trained service animals “play an absolutely vital role. “They make it possible for people with disabilities to work, travel, stay safe and, in some cases, survive.”
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Fox News Digital has reached out to Buc-ee's and Wood for comment.
