[TSgt]

Swans should be banned.

[Jonty30]

Now that they’ve lost their protector, dinner!

[Hodar]

"Run away!! Run away!!"

[ClearCase_guy]

If Obama had a pet bird, it would look like that swan.

[Wolfie]

A swan song conducted by an actual swan.

[cableguymn]

“but by the time police finally pulled him out of the water, more than a half hour had passed”

When seconds count. the police are only half an hour away!

[Anitius Severinus Boethius]

Witnesses said Hensley came up at least once after his kayak tipped in the pond, but by the time police finally pulled him out of the water, more than a half hour had passed.

So for half an hour the citizenry was completely and totally helpless?

These are the people who will not survive a week if the SHTF.

[Lazlo in PA]

Swans are big and mean. My neighbor has a pair and they are not something I would want wandering around my yard. They will charge you if they think you are too close plus they poop all over the place.

[Keith in Iowa]

>>>Swans should be banned.

Ban is a little to far. Need a Waiting period, mandatory education & safety classes too. And Swan licensing.

[Oztrich Boy]

http://www.cracked.com/article_15853_the-6-cutest-animals-that-can-still-destroy-you.html

[Jack Hydrazine]

Just grab them by the neck and pull them underwater!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I suspect it was a cob and not a swan. In the 1920’s a man in Methuen, Massachusetts drown in shallow water after being attacked by a cob defending cygnets. (The man must have acted in a manner that appeared to be threatening to the cob.) Swans are BIG and attack by beating their victims with the elbow joints on their wings. They can inflict serious injury.

My son-in-law was fishing in the Charles River in Natick, when he glanced to his right and noticed a cob standing on tiptoes next to him raising his wings menacingly. My s-i-l got the message and backed away.

[the invisib1e hand]

Swans can be pretty intimidating. But nothing is as scawey as a wabbit.

[Cicero]

We had a family of swans at a nearby lake where we lived in Connecticut. They were mean as hell, and you’d have to be nuts to go near where they nested, out on a tiny rocky island.

That said, why wasn’t this guy wearing a life preserver? And why did his neighbors just stand there watching for half an hour, without doing anything?

[Gator113]

In Chicago , even the swans are killers.

I raise geese, ducks and chickens for fun and for when TSHTF. I presently have 60 birds.

I have two goose moms sitting on their eggs, an African Brown (known as a swan goose), and a Toulouse. The eggs are due to hatch within the next week... this will add another 25 birds to the crew. There goes the feed bill. LOL

My birds know me and are not likely to attack me, but the geese and ducks are VERY protective during breeding season and when they on their eggs. They are more than willing to fight to the death to protect their own.

It seems this poor fellow should have worn a life vest.... for $30 he would still be alive.

[Darren McCarty]

The first part of Wild Animals is the word Wild. Harsh lesson to be paid, but I’m really not that surprised. Swans are more aggressive than geese, and being goosed is called “goosed” for a reason. Swans are known to go after boaters and jet-skiers, and I would not want a giant bird to go after me.

[onedoug]

I’d bet this is why Forest Lawn Glendale took out their swan/duck pond. Vicious swans.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Don’t know about Swans, but I was attacked by a Canadian goose when I was 6 years old while standing in chest deep water. That Goose would have eaten my lunch if it hadn’t been for Mom. Did you know Geese have teeth?

[Red Badger]

I guess he did a Swan Dive............

[A. Patriot]

Obviously, one of those rare and unforseen "black swan events".

[Zeppo]

“His kayak wasn’t upside down, but it was, like, upwards,” eyewitness Daniel Gamanov said “You could see the tip of it.”

Daniel is not, like, the most articulate witness imaginable, is he...