San Francisco barbershop fights graffiti with rubber ducks

SAN FRANCISCO — A longtime San Francisco barber, Shorty Maniace, has never been the type to ruffle anyone’s feathers. But when faced with unsightly graffiti next to his beloved barbershop J.P. Kempt, rather than duck responsibility, Maniace hatched a plan. “This was just me messing around and having fun and it turned out to be something great,” Maniace said  His weapon of choice? Rubber duckies. Hundreds of them.  “I see a lot of people smile and I smile every time I look at it,” he said.  It all started innocently enough, Maniace had some rubber ducks left over from a Halloween party and decided to put them to good use.  “Who doesn’t love a rubber duck?” he asked.  Armed with a drill and a vision, he began attaching funny fowl to the boarded-up business next door. The result is a colorful work of art. So colorful, in fact, it has become a hotspot for influencers looking for some duck-themed dazzle.  “I’ve never seen a duck wall before and I just had to take a selfie,” said San Francisco resident Sherlin Wong All in all, he’s got about 700 rubber duckies of different shapes and colors. There’s a pirate, a unicorn,...