In the name of SCIENCE I ask this question:Has anybody actually had their arm broken by a single flap of a swan's wing?
Or it this simply black propaganda put about by angry geese to get the heat off?
FACT: Early drafts of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet "Swan Lake" where called "Angry Goose Rampage", until an assault by "unknown hissing, flapping thugs who fetched me a nasty peck" forced the Russian composer to change the title. "Also, cheaper car insurance and compare waterfowl."
The Fragrant Mrs Duck once had her arm swallowed by a goose. Goose bites can be very nasty, you know.
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FOAF was goosed by a swan. Or swanned by a goose. Can't remember. But it was unpleasantness all round for a while.
And someone on Big Brother a few years back was slapped by a turkey. Or something.
Seagulls are worse.
Were they territorial geese? You know, at weekends they're just like any other geese but on weekdays they're accountants and bank clerks and quantity surveyors...
I'll get my coat.
Where or were?
LOL@Pseudonymph.
I've had a nasty Chinese burn of a Swann. Does that count?
OFF a Swann.
*goes red*
FROM a Swann.
Swans are assholes. They look pretty and act like they own the place.
I've been attacked on several occasions by groups of swans when swimming. Don't go near them without a really blunt weapon.
According to "agrumpycow" of Reading:
"About 20 years ago a guy living across the road from my Gran had a swan land in his garden, he wanted it out (for some unknown reason) but managed to corner it, got too close and did break his arm by the bird's wings, I believe it was more than one 'flap' mind you, and if he hadn't cornered and stressed the bird he would have been ok."
If you get beaked, they can break a finger. I haven't experience this, as I'm not stupid enough to try and pet a swan, but a fellow patient in the Acute Hand Clinic had one of her fingers broken by a swan. To be fair, she was a rehabilitation/swan carer or something.
Don't you have to be royalty to get close enough to a Swan to be injured by it?
That being so it's your own fault for dressing up like a queen if a Swan attacks you.
GT
A swan in Florida tried to eat my tennie shoe.
Silly swan.
Goose gobbles duck? Confused!
Owls? Swans? What next?
A Spitfire flying over a Scottish loch set up some swans, and his wingman ran into them, collecting two, one on the cannons on each wing. Neatly eviscerated, and Very tasty, apparently.
I went fishing with a friend of my fathers a year or so ago, he was reeling in his line when a signet got caught in the line. The signet then proceeded to squawk and flap until its mother came onto land hissing at myself and my dad's friend and even attempting to go and peck us. It managed to attack him but not me while he was untying the signet. Eventually it did hurt him (little more than a light bruise and a small cut) at which point he became furious with the misunderstanding and smacked the bird on the beak. It became dazed, he untied the signet and the pair went off on their way. Sufficed to say, it broke nothing on us but did give us some sore body parts.
Give the bird some room, and it'll take over the parks. Give it a gun and it'll TAKE OVER TEH WORLD!
Nuke them out of orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
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