{"id":1943158,"date":"2023-06-02T18:22:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T22:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/truth-about-nesting-swan-killed-in-new-york-this-wasnt-just-a-random-bird\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T18:24:12","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T22:24:12","slug":"truth-about-nesting-swan-killed-in-new-york-this-wasnt-just-a-random-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/truth-about-nesting-swan-killed-in-new-york-this-wasnt-just-a-random-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Nesting swan killed in NY was not a random bird."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftruth-about-nesting-swan-killed-in-new-york-this-wasnt-just-a-random-bird%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1943158&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Tragic Tale of Faye the Swan<\/h2>\n<p>Faye the mute swan and her mate, Manny, were beloved in the upstate New York town of Manlius for their graceful beauty. They and their predecessors have been town mascots since swans were first introduced to the town in 1905. Faye was a regional celebrity, and people loved to visit the Manlius Swan Pond off Fayette Street near the village offices to see her and Manny.<\/p>\n<p>However, on Memorial Day weekend, Faye&#8217;s absence was noticed sometime after the annual parade. Residents notified police, who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labour-leader-starmer-skirts-criminal-charges-over-lockdown-beer-gathering\/\" title=\"Labour Leader Starmer Skirts Criminal Charges over Lockdown Beer Gathering\">reviewed video footage<\/a> for clues. They discovered Faye&#8217;s four recently hatched offspring, known as cygnets, were also missing.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Manlius police delivered some good news and some bad news at a news conference. The good news was that the four cygnets had been recovered \u2014 two at a local shopping center and two at a nearby home. The bad news was very bad indeed: Faye, police said, had been butchered and eaten.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThree suspects \u2014 teens that are neighborhood friends and went to high school together \u2014 hopped the Manlius Swan Pond fence between midnight and 3 a.m., Saturday into Sunday,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Police Sgt. Ken Hatter told reporters that Faye didn\u2019t struggle or fight back because she was nesting. The teens decapitated her with a knife and then took her carcass home, where she was cooked and consumed, Hatter said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects \u2014 ages 18, 17, and 16 \u2014 pleaded ignorance. \u201cThey believed it was just a very large duck,\u201d Hatter said. \u201cThey did not know it was a swan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Really? So we\u2019ve got three high schoolers unable to identify a swan?<\/p>\n<p>The police hinted the teens are not native to the U.S., referring vaguely to their \u201ccultural beliefs\u201d regarding the waterfowl dinner. It turns out that wasn\u2019t the reason. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t because they were lacking in food,\u201d Hatter said. \u201cThey were hunting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/truth-about-nesting-swan-killed-in-new-york-this-wasnt-just-a-random-bird\/\" title=\"Nesting swan killed in NY was not a random bird.\">young \u201chunters\u201d told police<\/a> they thought Faye was a wild animal and they were unaware it belonged to the village. \u201cThey did not have any idea of the significance that the swans had on this community,\u201d Hatter said.<\/p>\n<p>Eman Hussan, 18, of Syracuse, and the two juveniles \u2014 unnamed because they are minors \u2014 were charged with two felonies, third-degree grand larceny and second-degree criminal mischief, as well as two misdemeanors: fifth-degree conspiracy and third-degree criminal trespass, the Post-Standard reported. The Department of Environmental Conservation may <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manhattan-grand-jury-indicts-trump-in-connection-with-stormy-daniels-payments\/\" title=\"Manhattan Grand Jury Indicts Trump In Connection With Stormy Daniels Payments\">bring additional charges<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to argue with those who demand justice for Faye. Wherever these young men hail from, they surely knew that the public in general \u2014 and police in particular \u2014 would have a problem with what they were doing. Even if these teens are newcomers to the United States and have never seen or heard of a swan, there\u2019s not a country in the world where someone jumping a fence at 3 a.m. is assumed to be an honest, upstanding citizen with good intentions.<\/p>\n<p>It will be interesting to see which scenario plays out. Either way, Manny the swan will be gliding alone on Swan Pond for the foreseeable future, a reminder that things have changed in the town of Manlius \u2014 and perhaps the U.S. as a whole \u2014 forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faye, the mute swan, and her mate Manny were adored in Manlius, NY for their elegance. They were town mascots since 1905 when swans were introduced. WSYR-TV stated, &#8220;Central New York loves Manny and Faye.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2022,"featured_media":1943159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[7173,3940,28179,17965,25889],"class_list":["post-1943158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily","tag-bird","tag-killed","tag-nesting","tag-random","tag-swan"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1943159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}