PORT CHALMERS DUCKLING INFLUENCER ISSUES TEARFUL APOLOGY FOR CROSSING ROAD WITHOUT 'DOING THE WORK'

Guys. Guys. I never thought I'd have to make this video.

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A Port Chalmers duck known online as Brenda B has posted a 14-minute apology to her 312 followers after waddling across a Beach Street pedestrian crossing earlier this week without, in her own words, "acknowledging the harm caused". Witnesses say a Subaru stopped for her. Brenda now says that wasn't her place to accept.

In the video, filmed beside a puddle near the wharf, Brenda opens with a long pause and a quiver. "To my community," she says, "I am so so sorry. I crossed that road. I took up that space. And I didn't even think about the cars behind that Subaru. I'm growing. I'm learning. I'm doing the work."

Local resident Annette Cargill, 64, who watched the original crossing from the bus stop, said she wasn't sure what Brenda had done wrong. "The car stopped. She crossed. That's how it works, love. She had four ducklings with her and one of them was limping. I'd say she's had a week."

Brenda's manager, a teenager from a Constitution Street flat who asked to be identified only as "Fletch", told The Daily Yarn the apology was "part of a wider rebrand". He confirmed Brenda would be stepping back from the crossing "to focus on her mental health and also moulting season".

The video ends with Brenda announcing a new course on accountability, available via links in her bio. At time of writing, the bio contains no links, only a photo of bread.