Oh yes Tuds...

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As a kid I was told to keep away from swans as they can break your leg with their wing. Has this ever been recorded anywhere as actually happening?

My great uncle had his arm broken by a swan while canoeing on the canal near Gorton Manchester

From an incident two years ago i can vouch swans are quite capable of this. My freind and i were walking back to our residences in stirling when another student walking by the lake must have got too close to a nest by accident. The resulting attack by the mother swan was serious enough for hospital treatment, and a leg cast. whether the injury was caused by the wing or by the beak I couldnt tell you but the swan was pretty ferocious. I give them a wide berth now.

I've never heard of anyone's leg being broken by a swan, but my grandmother had her arm broken by one. She was a keen ornithologist and got too close to a pen on her nest, hence the attack and resulting injury. I don't know how old she was when the attack took place or if she suffered from brittle bones but it happened before I was born and she was in her late 50s when I came along.

Posted By: malkybarkid on December 17th 2007 at 10:40:00

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will British aerospace have a stand at the Ippo Corn exchange 2nite? (General Chat) - green n yella beaver, Dec 17, 09:59:16
- Or even the British Government.. (General Chat) - BlueFury, Dec 17, 10:17:43
  - Your new saviour has interests in those sort of areas doesn't he? And doing experiments on (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Dec 17, 10:19:07
    - And there was me (& everyone else outside of norfolk) (General Chat) - BlueFury, Dec 17, 10:20:48
      - He makes pigs smoke. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Dec 17, 10:23:12
        
        So does Selywn (n/m) (General Chat) - Brom, Dec 17, 10:29:17
        
        That's just friction though, not tobacco. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 17, 10:30:22
        
        That is true... (General Chat) - Brom, Dec 17, 10:33:30
        
        He's a mad old cunt. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Dec 17, 10:34:22
        
        Nothing wrong with that. (General Chat) - BlueFury, Dec 17, 10:24:58
        
        He feeds burgers to swans too. (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 17, 10:29:00
        
        It's not that cruel, unless you make one eat about 11 - its beak would split. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Dec 17, 10:30:03
        
        I like it when they drift past Cow Tower, about fifty of them, and they're all asleep, jus (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 17, 10:32:06
        
        Has anyone ever hard their arm busted by a swan? (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Dec 17, 10:33:43
        
        Leonard Nimoy did. It made him go all Vulcan. (n/m) (General Chat) - Poomers Gorn Hoiper, Dec 17, 10:41:04
        
        I once watched Go Fishing with John Wilson, right, and he was talking to this Swan Expert (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 17, 10:40:18
        
        Oh yes Tuds... (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Dec 17, 10:40:00
        
        "... but they [geese] gave me quite a few bruises on the farm" (n/m) (General Chat) - Arizona Bay, Dec 17, 10:43:32
        
        Good point. (n/m) (General Chat) - tudders, Dec 17, 10:26:54
        
        And offalsocks. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Dec 17, 10:24:55
      - Dig deep, dig deep. (n/m) (General Chat) - malkybarkid, Dec 17, 10:22:54
- And Heather Mills (General Chat) - Poomers Gorn Hoiper, Dec 17, 10:09:30

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