if you want to test the theory try riding past a nest with 4 swan eggs in it

the When Swans Attack ride by rOcKeTdOgUk, on Flickr
we barely escaped with limbs unfractured

building your nest 2 feet from one of the busiest canal towpaths in the holiday season isn’t really wise

swans can only break a mans arm if its driving a fork lift truck at him

Irresponsible

Bunny Hop opportunity surely.

they cannot break your arm but they can drown you in your canoe- bbc link

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beaten to it

Swans can’t break yor arm, that’s just a mix of urban myth and avian hyperbole.

They can however give you a rather painful chinese burn.

Swans, they’re just like traffic wardens. They can both shove their bills up their arses.

They can’t break a man’s arm, but they can steal his apostrophes.

…Sheriff Tom Dart, whose deputies investigated the death.

Put one onto a conveyor belt and it can do wonderous things.

They are the queen’s secret army…

DrP

A male swan may be able to break a man’s arm with a flap of his wings, but a female swan can break a male swan’s heart with just one look.

Fear not, it will be on her majesty’s dinner table on Christmas Day.

(The swan, not RD & his riding posse)

Even Jens Voight would look for another path round there.

they can, but only if you’ve gone swimming after eating.

What? “… … worked for a company that provided swans to keep geese away from property”

That’s a tad ott ?

Cool pic though

Opportunity for a nice omelette if you ask me 😉

Driving through Worcester yesterday evening about 7pm, a Swan had decided to have a rest on the pavement, by the side of the dual carriageway, in the centre of town!

I’ve NEVER seen a Swan more than 5 yards from the river bank in Worcester, but here was a Swan probably 400 metres away from the River (though only 100 yards from the Canal), on the side of a very busy road, and it would not budge! Passers by had to cross the road to avoid it…

Anyway, the Fire Brigade got called to move it, and 20 minutes later they’d shoo’d it on I think.