Fowl play! A bronze duckling named Pack has been swiped from a beloved sculpture in Boston’s Public Garden.

Pack was snapped off at his webbed feet. He was the next to last of the eight ducklings lined up behind Mrs. Mallard in the sculpture inspired by Robert McCloskey’s children’s book “Make Way for Ducklings,” in which a family of ducks walks across a highway to get to the Garden.

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This student needs some “hire” education.

John Kettle, a horticulture major from England, applied for a job at a Welsh tourist attraction using an e-mail address that included “at least im not welsh.”

A manager at the botanic garden that received his application offered this helpful hint: “It may be prudent to change your e-mail address. It could have a detrimental effect on any career aspirations of working in Wales.”

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What a pain in the ass!

A Chinese man can finally sit in comfort after doctors removed a broken syringe needle that had been stuck in his butt for 31 years.

Lao Du, 55, of Zhengzhou, said the needle was left in his rear by an “amateurish” doctor in 1978.

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Call Dr. Seuss!

A Croatian farmer is doing a booming Easter business in naturally laid green eggs.

Stipa Gregacevic was astonished when his prize hen, Fata, began laying the colored eggs at his farm in Forkusevci. “I can’t really explain why it happens,” he said. “Some say it might be because we put red pepper in the hen food.”

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A Polish driver is facing a prison sentence after a “dead” deer he left on the back seat of his car regained consciousness.

Dariusz Kaminski, 25, told police he’d picked up the deer from the side of the road in Lublin, thinking it had been killed by a vehicle.

But the merely stunned deer woke up in Kaminski’s parked car, and he was charged with illegal possession of a wild animal.