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Man Dies After Swan Attack (No really...)
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| 4/16/2012
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Posted on 04/16/2012 10:05:40 AM PDT by TSgt
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Swans should be banned.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:05:42 AM PDT
by
TSgt
To: TSgt
Now that they’ve lost their protector, dinner!
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:10:52 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
(What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
To: TSgt
"Run away!! Run away!!"
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:11:26 AM PDT
by
Hodar
( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
To: TSgt
If Obama had a pet bird, it would look like that swan.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:11:29 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Like Emmett Till, Trayvon Martin has become simply a stick with which to beat Whites.)
To: TSgt
A swan song conducted by an actual swan.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:12:02 AM PDT
by
Wolfie
To: TSgt
“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!
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:12:16 AM PDT
by
cableguymn
(Good thing I am a conservative. Otherwise I would have to support Mittens like Republicans do.)
To: TSgt
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.
To: TSgt
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.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:15:16 AM PDT
by
Lazlo in PA
(Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:18:12 AM PDT
by
samtheman
To: TSgt
>>>Swans should be banned.
Ban is a little to far. Need a Waiting period, mandatory education & safety classes too. And Swan licensing.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:18:47 AM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
If the guy can’t swim, what the heck is he doing out there without a life jacket? ESPECIALLY IN A KAYAK!?
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:20:06 AM PDT
by
mamelukesabre
(I take Olive Oyl on me spinach. She said she didn't go in for that kinky stuff but she does now)
To: Anitius Severinus Boethius
>>>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.
I think Darwin called it Natural Selection.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:20:53 AM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(Willard Romney, purveyor of the world's finest bullmitt. | FR Class of 1998 |)
To: TSgt
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:20:53 AM PDT
by
Oztrich Boy
(This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
To: TSgt
Just grab them by the neck and pull them underwater!
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:22:43 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: TSgt
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.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:22:55 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(Queeg Olbermann: Ahh, but the strawberries that's... that's where I had them.)
To: mamelukesabre
According to his father, Hensley was a good swimmer, Swans can be NASTY. Years ago there was a case of swans drowning a jet-ski rider. I'd guess under similar circumstances when he got too close to a nest.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:25:37 AM PDT
by
FourPeas
("Maladjusted and wigging out is no way to go through life, son." -hg)
To: Jack Hydrazine
The guy had a kayak paddle, too, which is a good weapon against swans.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:25:43 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: TSgt
Swans can be pretty intimidating. But nothing is as scawey as a wabbit.
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:26:27 AM PDT
by
the invisib1e hand
(I think in about 5 - no, 4 - years I'll have had enough.)
To: Keith in Iowa
SHTF ? Swans hit the fan ?
To: TSgt
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?
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posted on
04/16/2012 10:29:47 AM PDT
by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
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