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Sick thugs spear swan with a wooden stake
Bo Wilson18 Nov 2008
A young swan was seriously injured when thugs stabbed it through the wing with a wooden stake.
The cygnet was found speared by the 2m weapon in Boreham, Essex, yesterday. Dog-walker Wendy Palmer, who discovered the swan, dialled 999.
Minutes later 10 Essex fire officers and RSPCA workers arrived to help the ailing bird.
Passer-by Stephen Huntley, who captured the rescue on camera, said: “It looked like someone had deliberately attacked the bird with the stick — it was no accident. The poor creature looked in great distress.”
The swan is now being cared for by the RSPCA.
Reader views (11)
Give it 6 months, and these thugs will be attacking people (if they haven't already).
Hope they are caught.
- Jock, London, 18/11/2008 20:19
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surely Mr Mbenga Naboma, you are busy eating your countrymen rather than our wildlife?
- Kedge, Marlboro wilts, 18/11/2008 20:07
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Everyone focuses on the swan, sad though that event is - but what of society that has bred this sick contempt for helpless animals (and by extension, people)? Feel-good do-gooding has done its damage to the disciplining of youths today (the adults of tomorrow, remember). How about getting back to the ABCs of bringing kids up right, rather than as the kids, in their own 'infinite wisdom', think they should be brought up?
- Rogan, Irving, 18/11/2008 19:11
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Mbenga Naboma of London just typifies other cultures thoughts:-( Sad indeed. Just good to see some wanton suffering sorted.
Time CRUELTY to humans and animals was put at the top of politicians lists.
- Tony Islander, Herts, 18/11/2008 16:01
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In days of yore the perpetrators would have been left overnight in the stocks for the local community to throw vegetables at/post vegetables in/urinate on, as they saw fit. Our forebears understood a thing or too about humility learned from humiliation.
What will they get nowadays? £20 fine and told they're a Naughty Boy, don't do it again?
- Roz, Chamonix, France, 18/11/2008 15:35
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I'm all for doing the same to the culprit whoever he/she is. Let them have a taste to see what it feels like to be speared, be it an animal, bird or human.
- Agnes, Malaysia, 18/11/2008 15:19
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That will earn the creeps an ASBO rather than the hiding they deserve. I would cheerfully gutshoot them.
- Alan Preen, McLean, Texas, USA., 18/11/2008 14:57
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How could any human being do such cruel, sick things to a child, a swan or any naive, gentle, trusting creatures.
Please when you find the people who are inflicting this appallingly sick pain - I would ask that whatever they do/have done be done unto them.I am truly sickened.
- Elizabeth De Cuevas, dallas tx usa, 18/11/2008 14:44
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This bird must be good for eating!!
- Mbenga Naboma, London, 18/11/2008 14:35
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its good to know that there are far more people willing to spend time rescuing and caring for this poor animal than the 'mugs' who carried out this attack.........
- Jonny, London, 18/11/2008 14:34
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No doubt the dastardly work of our hungry Eastern European friends.
- Eddie, London, 18/11/2008 14:14
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