The reward fund to find the man who slaughtered 10 ducks at a Campbell, Calif., carwash has grown to nearly $14,000, and police have three investigators working full time on the case.
''We're getting 50 to 75 tips a day,'' said Campbell police Capt. Russ Patterson. ''We're taking it very seriously. We're working as fast as we can.''
The spectacle of a man intentionally driving over the tame ducks at the Delta Queen Classic Car Wash -- and then getting out of his car and killing some with his hands -- has outraged people around the world.
Surveillance cameras captured the 12:30 a.m. Aug. 5 crime on videotape, although the tape is not clear enough for police to make out the license plate. It appears to be a vanity plate, and police identified the car as a red Acura Integra, a late-'80s or early '90s model.
''We're at $13,580 right now,'' Bryan Buell, assistant manager of the carwash, said Wednesday afternoon. ''At the end of the day, we expect the fund to be at $14,000. It's been phenomenal.''
The carwash has received at least one offer of free ducks, but Buell said the ducks are a family unit ''and will replenish themselves. We have the three baby ducks born on Saturday. We appreciate the feelings but we do not need ducks.''