CADS rescuers targeted Lake Murphy, near Kerang, for the opening of the 2015 duck shooting season.

Also present was a Game Management compliance officer who was also a duck shooter. Because of this officer’s behaviour in the past, he was greatly disliked by rescuers. Furthermore, while acting as a wildlife officer in charge of the final weekend of the 2011 duck shooting season, he had organised a sting which resulted in five duck rescuers being arrested, bundled into a police van and taken to the Kerang police station. They were charged with deflecting birds away from the shooters’ guns and ended up in the Melbourne Magistrates’ court for a week.

At Lake Murphy in 2015, while standing in the water, Levy heard a commotion and saw this particular officer furiously paddling a kayak in pursuit of several rescuers who Levy believed had a wounded bird.  Because the officer had been so aggressive towards rescuers previously, Levy took the opportunity to grab hold of the end of his kayak and pull it backwards in the water as the officer tried to paddle forward, much to the hilarity of everyone watching from the shore. The incident was captured by the media and shown on TV news that night.