Posted on 06/29/2025 1:09:13 AM PDT by Morgana
HOWARD BEACH, Queens (WABC) -- A bizarre crime caught on camera led to the arrests of a group of suspects accused of removing a swan from a park in Queens and then stuffing the bird into a car.
The viral video shows a young man with swan in his hands, running from the inlet at 165th Avenue and 95th Street in Frank Charles Memorial Park in Howard Beach on Saturday evening.
"They came up this path here and then ran out towards the street," Stephanie Santiago said.
Santiago, a school attendance teacher in Howard Beach, lives nearby, and her daughter recorded the cell video that shows the stolen swan being stuffed into a car.
The teacher even captured the four males laughing as they sped away.
"I yelled at them. I was irate, but I told them that they were going to see me again," Santiago said.
Santiago said she sees the swans sunbathing in her yard every day, and that she believed the swan to be the parent to four cygnets.
"These birds have to be protected. They are federally protected birds," she said.
The New York State Dept. of Environmental Conservation says that mute swans are protected under the law - therefore, swans, as well as their nests and eggs, may not be handled or harmed without authorization from the DEC.
Santiago contacted U.S. Parks officers and shared the video.
Neighbor PJ Marcel saw Santiago's swan-snatching video and posted it to local Facebook group Howard Beach Dads.
"I was beside myself. I was outraged," Marcel told Eyewitness News.
And the community felt similarly: the video "got almost 150,000 views and 2000 shares in less than 16 hours."
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They didnt do it because they hungry. They did it because thats what they do in their own country. What they are is what America is on its way to becoming.
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Didn’t Trump in the campaign call certain illegals out on this practice, after reports (without videos) they were doing this, and the media derided him for stereotyping, etc.?
A college student wanted to sit next to one of his teachers at lunch.
However, the teacher looked at the student with an arrogant face and said:
‘A swan shan’t be friends with a pig.’
‘Then I shall fly on,’ answered the student with a smile.
The teacher was clearly vexed by the cheeky reply and decided to make sure to do everything in his power to fail the student.
At the oral exam, he gave the student the hardest questions, but the student had amazing answers for everything. Therefore, hoping he could still fail his victim, the teacher asked him a trickier question:
‘You’re walking on a road and you find two bags. One contains gold, the other cleverness. Which bag do you choose?’
‘The gold.’
‘Unfortunately, I don’t agree. I’d choose cleverness because that’s more important than money.’
‘Everyone would choose what they don’t have,’ says the student.
The teacher turns red, and he’s so angry he writes “ass” on the student’s paper. The student leaves without looking at the paper. However, he returns shortly, gives back his paper and says:
‘Excuse me sir, you signed my paper, but you forgot to give me my grade!’
There eating the cats. There eating the dogs.😄
Maybe. The thieves own a river?
Yes they did. This was despite that Haitians admitted that this was a practice in their own country.
Olim Lacus Colueram (from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana)
Once I lived on lakes,
once I looked beautiful
when I was a swan.
(Male chorus)
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!
(Tenor)
The servant is turning me on the spit;
I am burning fiercely on the pyre:
the steward now serves me up.
(Male Chorus)
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!
(Tenor)
Now I lie on a plate,
and cannot fly anymore,
I see bared teeth:
(Male Chorus)
Misery me!
Now black
and roasting fiercely!
In the days of market hunting, swans were one of the most highly prized and valued birds.
Adult swans can kick your @$$, break your arm with prejudice.
Brrr. Must be desperate to load one into a car, considering their SNAP cards probably are loaded full.
I really don’t think they did it out of desperation. Illegals will do this just to show that they can, to snub the nose of the natives.
There is enough charity floating around that they could have asked just about any place and they would have found food.
Update. Now they’re eating the swans...
Note the bit about lunch plates.
Paging ICE.
Just in case.
Gramercy, for that
They likely will eat it. You can't relocate it. If it ever escapes, it will just come back to its original area.
When swan have been on good feed, like the grain and corn they eat at Mattamuskeet, they are the best eating of all waterfowl - like a dark rich roast beef. If they are feeding from greens in the western U.S.’s alkali flats, that is a different story altogether.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCPjQOBr7aI
Everything the Democrat party has done since Truman has been bad for America(and the world)
And they weren’t great before then!
A college student wanted to sit next to one of his teachers at lunch.
However, the teacher looked at the student with an arrogant face and said:
‘A swan shan’t be friends with a pig.’
‘Then I shall fly on,’ answered the student with a smile.
The teacher was clearly vexed by the cheeky reply and decided to make sure to do everything in his power to fail the student.
At the oral exam, he gave the student the hardest questions, but the student had amazing answers for everything. Therefore, hoping he could still fail his victim, the teacher asked him a trickier question:
‘You’re walking on a road and you find two bags. One contains gold, the other cleverness. Which bag do you choose?’
‘The gold.’
‘Unfortunately, I don’t agree. I’d choose cleverness because that’s more important than money.’
‘Everyone would choose what they don’t have,’ says the student.
The teacher turns red, and he’s so angry he writes “ass” on the student’s paper. The student leaves without looking at the paper. However, he returns shortly, gives back his paper and says:
‘Excuse me sir, you signed my paper, but you forgot to give me my grade!’
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Wow, that is really good!
It was good- whoever made the joke has Good mind.
Yes, usual suspects:
“Less than 24 hours after the video was posted, NYC Parks worker Frank Kelly spotted the suspects about two miles away at Forest Park.
Three of four suspects were apprehended as a result of neighbors banding together to protect wildlife.”
Unfortunately:
“The whereabouts of the missing waterfowl are still unknown.”
Mute Swans are not protected by Federal Law.
They are protected by NYS law regarding removal of wildlife.
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