Swan kills man...
Discussion
Puggit said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17736292[/link]
Anthony Hensley, 37, worked for a company that provided swans to keep geese away from property.
Amazing - there's a risk assessment with a lot of tippex on it right now I would guess...Anthony Hensley, 37, worked for a company that provided swans to keep geese away from property.
MonkeyMatt said:
Do you mind me asking how it broke your arm?
Not at all,I was clambering out onto the bank (as it were) and this swan came out of some nearby shrubs hissing and flapping it's wings, I tried to fend it off (still half in the water) and in the process the swam flapped it's wings into my flailing arm and broke my left arm about halfway between my wrist and elbow. I had to dog paddle (in a fashion) back to the shore as my (ahem) so called friends were busy laughing their heads off on the bank and refused to help, as it was my own fault for showing off.
hesnotthemessiah said:
y2blade said:
Swan 1...retard 0
nature wins.
Wooooo....Easy with the insults Tiger. I didn't know the swan was there and I was only a kid, admittedly a bit of a show-off but not a nature botherer by any stretch.nature wins.
I quite like this nature story from todays Daily Mail
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131060/Le...
1.2.3 Aaaah
oh wait hang on a minute
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2131060/Le...
1.2.3 Aaaah
oh wait hang on a minute
carmonk said:
Didn't really kill him, though, did it?
My Chihuahua has just killed your Doberman.How the hell did it do that?
It got stuck in its throat.................
/offtopic
The most dangerous I've ever seen a swan, is when two of them appeared over the railings on the Avonmouth bridge, at a height of about 5 feet. OK for Car drivers, terrifying for me heading at them at 56mph !
Imagine that thing coming through the screen at you !
hesnotthemessiah said:
Not at all,
I was clambering out onto the bank (as it were) and this swan came out of some nearby shrubs hissing and flapping it's wings, I tried to fend it off (still half in the water) and in the process the swam flapped it's wings into my flailing arm and broke my left arm about halfway between my wrist and elbow. I had to dog paddle (in a fashion) back to the shore as my (ahem) so called friends were busy laughing their heads off on the bank and refused to help, as it was my own fault for showing off.
I'm really surprised at that. The swan's bones are hollow with a lattice structure inside for lightness. I would have thought your bones would be stronger. I have heard this before though but thought it was an urban myth.I was clambering out onto the bank (as it were) and this swan came out of some nearby shrubs hissing and flapping it's wings, I tried to fend it off (still half in the water) and in the process the swam flapped it's wings into my flailing arm and broke my left arm about halfway between my wrist and elbow. I had to dog paddle (in a fashion) back to the shore as my (ahem) so called friends were busy laughing their heads off on the bank and refused to help, as it was my own fault for showing off.
According to ornithologists, the swan's aggressive reaction is typical for the species, the mute swan, when defending a nest.
"It's presumably a male swan and it's presumably paired, and it's set up home for the spring," says Chris Perrins, Her Majesty's Swan Warden and a retired Oxford ornithologist.
"It's going to defend that territory."
The males are fierce in defence of their nests, especially during the spring nesting season - April to June.
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Moral of the story? Don't f
k with them!
"It's presumably a male swan and it's presumably paired, and it's set up home for the spring," says Chris Perrins, Her Majesty's Swan Warden and a retired Oxford ornithologist.
"It's going to defend that territory."
The males are fierce in defence of their nests, especially during the spring nesting season - April to June.
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Moral of the story? Don't f
k with them!hesnotthemessiah said:
A swan broke my arm when I was a kid. I swam over to an island in a small lake and the swan (I guess) thought I was after the swam's eggs or chicks. Dangerous mofos! Don't mess!
Always warned about swans when I was a nipper, and pigs (don't laugh, used to get around a farm). A local fresh water lake was a playground where swans were. All down to using your head when around wild animals.Mad killer on the loose....
y2blade said:
watch out for Geese too!
Been on a few safari trips in Africa and never been preyed on, but was oncew attacked whilst dozing of a particularly boozy lunch by the side of a lake on the Spier estate in Stellenbosh, by a.....coot.
It had chicks and I think my snoring alarmed it. It didn't break my arm though.
I once had a swan fly across the central barriers on the A38 at windscreen height and fortunately it partly hit the o/s A pillar on my Pug 205GTI.
Made a right old mess, the screen managed to hold it out, but 70 mph, albeit being reduced rather rapidly, with a dead swan pressing the mangled laminated screen back in and trapping my hands between steering wheel and screen made another mess, claret everywhere from cut hands.
Glad the swan was kept on the outside, don't fancy 10 kg of pissed off swan sat in my lap.
Was amazed how much glass flew about, every item of clothing had bits of glass in it, even undercrackers, oo er matron.
Made a right old mess, the screen managed to hold it out, but 70 mph, albeit being reduced rather rapidly, with a dead swan pressing the mangled laminated screen back in and trapping my hands between steering wheel and screen made another mess, claret everywhere from cut hands.
Glad the swan was kept on the outside, don't fancy 10 kg of pissed off swan sat in my lap.
Was amazed how much glass flew about, every item of clothing had bits of glass in it, even undercrackers, oo er matron.
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