It was a calm dark evening when the Ekaterinburg mayor went for his usual run. Suddenly he could hear screams. "Look, look what they're doing! It's not right!" a young woman, who was walking with her little son, addressed to Roizman. That is when the mayor noticed some strange men with fishing rods.
They were migrants, who had caught a duck and were trying to shove it in a sack. "I was suddenly very hurt. First of all, ducks in our area are not afraid of people. And, in general, it is unfair and painful," the kind-hearted man wrote on his Facebook. Feeling sorry for the duck, the little kid started to cry.
Roizman tried to shame the migrants, but they brazenly continued. Then the mayor reminded them it wasn't actually allowed to catch the birds there. "Go to the forest and shoot as many as you need. But not here," he explained, but no reaction followed.
"Guys, don't you feel ashamed? What if your children were feeding those ducks and some strangers came to kill it?" Roizman continued to put them to shame nearly starting to cry himself. Finally, he got through to them. Shedding a tear, the migrants released the bird.
"I ran home, sat down to supper and suddenly a thought came up to my mind: what if those poor men are working at construction site days and nights, and that duck was the only meal they could get? And now they will go to bed hungry and sad."
"Now I doubt whether it was a good or bad deed," the mayor concluded. You don't face such a dilemma every day, even being the head of the whole city!
