[nickcarraway]

[Dawgreg]

Damn thieves!!!!

[dinodino]

Not much meat on the small ones...he should have waited until they were fully grown...

[albie]

“The mother looks so sad now because she don’t have her baby...”

Talk much?

[dsrtsage]

Make him “not a man”. Besides, no such thing as gender anyway

[JennysCool]

Florida man’s swan song?

[heavy metal]

this has swan song written all over it...

[mass55th]

He was just trying to do what Moochie Obama says to do...”get his piece of the swan pie...a delicacy in Medieval times.”

[Pollard]

“The mother looks so sad now because she don’t have her baby...”

Yeah, that lasts for all of a day or two.

[j.havenfarm]

Typical lazy reporting. Anyone else wondering how the cygnets were recovered, and why no arrests were made?

[ifinnegan]

“Orlando Commissioner Patty Sheehan said every November, swan “docents” collect the swans, clean them or treat them if necessary, and return them to the park.”

What?

This whole thing is weird.

Weird that the article states the babies taken were recovered.

But no mention of arrest or who took them.

That would be the bigger story.

[Tennessee Nana]

Its Heineken Man...

[IYAS9YAS]

Idiots abound. How can people be so effing clueless? We thought he was legit. Yeah? Did you see a badge, an official vehicle, or even a uniform? Any kind of ID?

Putting birds in a cooler instead of some type of pet/animal transport? No tools of the trade to control the adult swans? Batting at the adult swans with the cooler?

Everything about this guy says "poacher/thief." Nothing says "official."

[P.O.E.]

Cue Al Jolson: "Swaaaaa-neeeee, How I love ya, How I love ya"

[GOPJ]

As of Monday evening, the two cygnets had been located and recovered by Orlando police detectives.

Poorly written story...

[Bikkuri]

"Sheehan"

Why does that name give me the creeps? ...

[Daffynition]

FFIW, if you kayak, especially in an area where they have taken up residence...swans can be a PITA.

They are like junk yard dogs.

*DEFEND WITH YOUR PADDLE MY SON!*

[rfp1234]

Thinkin’ ‘bout the times you drove in my car.
Thinkin’ that I might have drove you too far.
And I’m thinkin’ ‘bout the love that you laid on my table.

I told you not to wander ‘round in the dark.
I told you ‘bout the swans, that they live in the park.
Then I told you ‘bout our kid: now he’s married to Mabel.

Yes, I told you that the light goes up and down.
Don’t you notice how the wheel goes ‘round?
And you better pick yourself up from the ground
Before they bring the curtain down.
Yes, before they bring the curtain down.

Ah Ah Ah, yeh yeh yeh
Ah Ah Ah, yeh yeh yeh

Talkin’ ‘bout a girl that looks quite like you.
She didn’t have the time to wait in the queue.
She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle.

[Paul R.]

I guess the Cobs (adult male swans) have wing spurs, but not very big ones?

Proportionately to my daughter’s roosters, if swans had big sharp leg spurs they could really rip the thief a good one. Esp. if wearing shorts. My daughter’s oldest rooster has nicked me (drawn some blood) a couple times — I learned I have to now and then show him who’s the head rooster. (Just chasing him will do). And, don’t turn my back when he’s close and hens are around, if I’m wearing light clothes!

[Rockingham]

I grew up in a nearby neighborhood and, as small kids, we used to feed the swans at Lake Eola after church. Those birds are stately but not very bright. They would peck at my sister’s ankles thinking that her white socks were slices of bread.

[JimRed]

Taste like chicken?