Posted on 02/02/2016 1:36:19 PM PST by C19fan
A villainous pair of swans have been tormenting the good citizens of Brimscombe, a tiny village in the Cotswolds, with such viciousness that it's become national news. According to Metro UK, the two swans have vandalized property, harassed vehicles on public thoroughfares, and even attacked children.
Local residents, Metro reports, have been forced to go about armed with water pistols because the authorities refuse to step in. Swans, local officials inform the fearful residents, are "protected animals."
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Harming a swan is treason to Her Majesty. You will be publicly drawn and quartered at the Tower of London.
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By correcting one word, the question answers itself.
Mute Swans are a destructive invasive species here and you can’t kill them.
Two words- Alka seltzer. Birds can’t belch.
CC
Shoot (or shack it in the head with a golf club), shovel, shut up.
Doesn’t work.
Why doesn’t her majesty order the swans beheaded?
At least they aren’t Afghans...
I got close to a Swan nest in Wabash Indiana in 1973. I will never forget that Swan coming after me, feathers flying and it’s bill lunging about waist level.
Scary.
Those swans can be rapists, too. Just ask Leda.
I once saw black swans being hunted by a fellow in a kayak on Lake Taupo in New Zealand. They are huge pterodactyl like fowl and probably make quite a feast. Anything (or anyone) who attacks me or mine is fair game. But then again I’m a citizen, not a subject.
Wait until one of those swans attacks a Corgi. Thinks will be different then.
Time for a Royal Party:
Swan meat was regarded as a luxury food in England in the reign of Elizabeth I. A recipe for baked swan survives from that time: “To bake a Swan Scald it and take out the bones, and parboil it, then season it very well with Pepper, Salt and Ginger, then lard it, and put it in a deep Coffin of Rye Paste with store of Butter, close it and bake it very well, and when it is baked, fill up the Vent-hole with melted Butter, and so keep it; serve it in as you do the Beef-Pie.”
hasn’t the U.K. banned water pistols yet?
They are edible!
Easy fix.
This is so stupid. Canadian geese aren’t that nice either. Swans are slower and there are only two of them. Get a stick or fishing poll or dog and the Swans can be steered anywhere.
If you want problems, try skunks, bears, raccoons, coyotes, rats, termites, fire ants, killer bees, rattle snakes, moose or HONEY BADGER. Honey badger don’t care.
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