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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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Haitians?
We know what probably happened to the bird. I hope they get life of hard time.
From the video, yes they look like them. It’s not been confirmed yet but they look like them.
I got this story from this youtuber who has more video on his link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTpyehs12W4
Swans are federally protected. If these people are illegals or in on a visa then I say send them to CECOT.
Sounds like they are already having a hard time if they are that hungry
You;re the guy that thinks being called a faggot is justification for murder
You seem to be having a hard time too
Seriously we here in Idaho are up to our azz in swans all winter. Nothing eats them unless they are desperate. Magpies screw with my cats and the cats prey on songbirds not magpies, if I don’t interrupt them on the hunt. The reason some birds don’t get preyed upon, my guess, is they taste like shit. Get serious boys and girls, some things aren’t good to eat. Sand Hill Cranes aren’t rib eye in the sky. Elk, deer, buffalo, trout, crappie, catfish, perch are a few of the stuff to eat. If they get the swan back, let it go if it’s alive. If it’s not make the assholes eat it. Then deport them or shoot them. IMO.
Maybe.
Let’s just deport them then.
-PJ
If the swans alive, I agree. Free the swan, then deport them. If the swan isn’t. Then shoot them after they eat it. Then deport them.
Why are mute swans federally protected? They aren’t native. They are the illegals of the swan world.
In Imitation of Chaucer
Women ben full of Ragerie,
Yet swinken not sans secresie.
Thilke Moral shall ye understond,
From Schoole—boy’s Tale of fayre Irelond:
Which to the Fennes hath him betake,
To filch the gray Ducke fro the Lake.
Right then, there passen by the Way
His Aunt, and eke her Daughters tway.
Ducke in his Trowses hath he hent,
Not to be spied of Ladies gent.
‘But ho! our Nephew,’ (crieth one)
‘Ho!’ quoth another, ‘Cozen John;’
And stoppen, and lough, and callen out, —
This sely Clerk full low doth lout:
They asken that, and talken this,
‘Lo here is Coz, and here is Miss.’
But, as he glozeth with Speeches soote,
The Ducke sore tickleth his Erse—roote:
Fore—piece and buttons all—to—brest,
Forth thrust a white neck, and red crest.
‘Te—he,’ cry’d Ladies; Clerke nought spake:
Miss star’d; and gray Ducke crieth Quake.
‘O Moder, Moder,’ (quoth the daughter)
‘Be thilke same thing Maids longer a’ter?
‘Bette is to pyne on coals and chalke,
’Then trust on Mon, whose yerde can talke.’
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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 bevoming.
If a homosexual assaults me, by hitting on me, I dont have it in me to be polite. Thats true enough.
I somewhat agree with your message, that any particular animal can become a nuisance if population gets out of control, but your comments were so heavily seasoned with profanity, all the way through, I almost did not hear what you had to say.
Swans used to be a delicacy like pheasant. Historically, they were served by the aristocracy and royalty at banquets and feasts. In the past, swans were a prized food, and in some cultures, they were a significant part of the diet.
“Sounds like they are already having a hard time if they are that hungry.”
Running, laughing and driving a Prius. They are not that hungry.
Ya
Ok
But I still won’t read all the articles first
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