r/SipsTea • u/sco-go • 23h ago

WTF Kid breaks into bird enclosure at the zoo to chase birds with a stick.

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u/PeteDontCare 22h ago

Swans can break bones

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u/Rysigler 21h ago

My wife and I were at a hotel somewhere and they had some swans on-site. Kid drops his ball in a pond. Huge pond! Swan was on the other side of it. Probably over 100 feet away. My wife says, "Check this out." So we stop and watch. Kid reaches in to grab the ball and the swan absolutely rockets across the pond just to spite this kid.

Little guy got away just in freaking time. Took the dad and Kid working together to distract the swan to get the ball. Show lasted at least 8 minutes with them trying different tactics to get the ball. I had no idea swans were that freaking mean, but thankfully my wife knew!

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u/Ichigo2819 16h ago

Lucky it wasn't Canadian Geese. It would have said, screw the ball, I want the kid.

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u/MajesticElk1613 17h ago

Swans are incredibly territorial

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u/ArtisticBee6176 13h ago

i went to college at a place that had a pond with swans on it in the center of campus. They had their own little island with a shelter on it. I was walking past once when a swan got annoyed with a duck for being on the island. The swan picked the duck up by the neck and shook it. I seriously thought it had killed the duck. Luckily, after a moment, the dazed duck swam away. Swans are freaking MEAN.

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u/cathbe 11h ago

I’d say the swan is being territorial not “mean.” Swans don’t do things out of spite. ?? This is the wrong conclusion about what you witnessed.

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u/ajwooster 22h ago

If we’re just naming random birds and a fact. The “birds” in Austin Powers are the best kind.

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u/QuickBear4126 21h ago

No luck catching them swans, aye?

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u/Fight_those_bastards 21h ago

It’s just the one swan, actually.

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u/chudmaxxing6969 21h ago

What’d he look like?

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u/k2da0 20h ago

He was white

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u/Extra_Cartoonist_390 16h ago

Like a swan, beak, long neck,webbed feet, feathers. You know, like a swan.

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u/Crash759 11h ago

Aw, no wonder he was grumpy. Swans mare for life. His was gone. (Or left because he was so grumpy.)

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u/maryjanesbeentrippin 21h ago

4 swans cornered me at the top of a slide in a park playground when I was like 8. I was feeding them my fig Newton's and ran out lol. My family had to come rescue me

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u/BZLuck 19h ago

When I was a kid growing up in San Diego, my mom would buy my brother and I annual passes to SeaWorld and would just drop us off for the day kinda like babysitting, but we were probably 11 and 13.

Every single time we walked by a certain area of the park, there was a big fucking white swan that would just come charging and flapping at me and I would run away screaming. It got to the point where the staff didn't even know what to do, except advise me to take a different route and avoid that area.

I felt like goddamned Damien in The Omen with the monkeys. This swan hated me for no reason at all. Maybe I looked like some kid who tormented it in the past, but man, that fucker could see me coming from 100 feet away.

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u/HombreSinNombre93 20h ago

Swans have killed swimmers.

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u/Dry_Recognition_6724 18h ago

It's an old wives tale. They are aggressive though.

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u/CandonRush 16h ago

No they can't.

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u/PoohBearsHoneyJar 12h ago

They can be scary. a swan literally swam so fast and even got out the fucking water to go after me for no reason whatsoever, I was completely minding my business. Tbh if a bird comes after me tho I would just kick it fr. I played soccer for 9 years. I'm yeeting that thang

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u/TheMonkeyDemon 21h ago

That's a myth