A truck carrying nearly 10,000 ducks overturned in southern Vietnam on Sunday, killing around a fifth of the poultry, but good fortune comes after bad luck, as the escaping ducks were caught by helpful locals.

Tran Anh Tuan was driving through Dinh Quan District in Dong Nai Province en route to the Central Highlands province of Lam Dong around 5:00 am when he lost control of the vehicle, he recalled.

The truck turned on its left side, breaking two nearby power poles and killing around 2,000 ducks, while releasing the remaining birds from the cargo.

Seeing the driver struggling to catch thousands of the freed ducks running around the highway, some local residents came to give him a helping hand.

Some even used fishing nets to capture the running ducks.

This was the first-ever transport trip of the driver, according to Phap Luat Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh (Ho Chi Minh City Law) newspaper.

Some local residents also bought the dead ducks to share his misfortune, the newspaper reported on Sunday.

“He will suffer big losses with such a huge number of dead ducks,” Tran Sinh, who bought seven of the birds, told Phap Luat Thanh Pho Ho Chi Minh.

“We want to support him as his first journey was so unfortunate.”

Vietnamese netizens have praised the helpfulness of local people, and compared it to another incident that also happened in Dong Nai in 2013, when locals did not react so kindly to a similar mishap.

On December 4, 2013, a truck carrying some 1,500 boxes of Tiger beer overturned when it was passing the Tam Hiep roundabout in Bien Hoa City, scattering beer cans on the street.

Instead of helping the driver clean up the mess, hundreds of people happily rushed to steal the beer cans, ignoring the desperate cries of the poor driver.

Local police then summoned ten people for investigation, and a court eventually sentenced two of them to six months each behind bars for “publicly appropriating property” in July 2014.

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