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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, Dec 17, 10:40:00
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