Teens ate beloved nyc swan. Say they mistook it for duck

[Demovictory9]

https://www.rawstory.com/can-you-eat-swan/

[MineralMan]

1. Reminds me of a pair of barnyard geese

that used to live down by the waterfront in the Central California town where I lived. Everyone loved them. People brought bread and other stuff to feed them. Celebrities, they were.

One day, they disappeared. It was a mystery, until someone discovered that an immigrant family in town had caught them and served them up for dinner. Outrage was general. People wanted them to be arrested.

Problem was that they were considered feral geese and not protected by any law at all. Pests. Delicious, though, I bet!

[GenXer47]

2. just remember, if they could eat you

they WOULD. Little dinosaurs.

[MineralMan]

4. No doubt. My Dad had some geese and ducks

at his citrus and avocado farm. They were workers. The place was fenced, and the birds ran loose. They ate snails, which are a pest in orchards.

In the evening, he'd pen them up, so he had a routing of feeding them grain at the end of the day. They'd fly back or waddle back from wherever they were and eat up, then go into their pen. Funny.

However, he had one male goose. He called it "Mad Max." That goose would attack anyone who got near him, and when he bit you, it hurt like the dickens. On time when I was there for a visit, Mad Max snuck up behind me and grabbed my leg on the loose skin behind my knee. Damn! So, I turned around and smacked him on the side of his head with my hand. He walked around, dazed, for about 30 seconds, and then walked over to me and rubbed his head on my leg, so I scratched his head for him.

After that, he'd run over whenever he saw me to get his head scratched. Nobody could figure out how I tamed Mad Max. I never told. You just had to get his attention one time and show him that you were the boss goose. That was it.

[malaise]

11. Love this story

😀😀

True story - we have no geese in these parts. A close friend’s aunt brought a spelling book for them from the US with pictures and spelling. His twin sisters who were about five having fun with the book - one twin spelled out GOOSE and the other looked at the picture and said duck.
Their dad immediately got rid of the book.😀😀😀

[LakeArenal]

3. What are we teaching kids in school these days?

I was an elementary school teacher. I shake my head as to what people don’t know.

[Act_of_Reparation]

10. "These days"

Yeah, okay.

[NickB79]

12. Indeed

We need to bring back mandatory hunter safety classes so kids can at least tell the difference between ducks and swans before they eat them, and know the legal hunting season is in the fall.

[stopdiggin]

5. a duck .. ????

(guess I have to add - I've seen discussions - among adults - where people insisted that geese were, 'sort of a duck'.) Okkkkay.

Still calling BS on the teens. This was a goof - rather than a mistake.
At least they ate it - slightly better than just killing out of meanness?

[lame54]

7. We filmed geese in our lake...

And in our narration called them ducks

My father-in-law laughed his ass off at us

[Sanity Claws]

6. Upstate NY, not NYC

[JanMichael]

8. A little concerned with the 18 year old smiling in handcuffs after this

Suppose he's happy with himself for being such an a******?

[LisaL]

9. He looks so happy being arrested.

I hope they make him even happier by keeping his a$$ in jail for a while.

[MerryBlooms]

13. Bullshit story from start to finish.

I don't believe for one minute they believed the swan was a duck, and I don't believe they ate it. I think they killed the swan and babies for fun.The scumbags took the babies and what, killed and ate them too? Swans mate for life. This report makes me nearly vomit. The cruelty involved is inexcusable. They didn't eat the swan, that's bull.