Someone Please Grow A Pair!

Hello my dear friends. This weekend, in Manlius, NY, a horrible thing occurred. Someone or maybe several people went to the Manlius Swan Pond sometime late Saturday or early Sunday and took eight swan eggs from the nest of residents Manny and Faye Swan and destroyed them. Why? I can't tell you. The eggs were expected to hatch in Mid May. Some eggs were dropped. They others were thrown against a building. What kind of person does something like that? I'm just heartbroken over it. It's been 8 years since there have been baby swans (cygnets) in the Manlius Swan Pond. Someone knows who did this. There's a $3000 reward for information and that reward keeps growing. So, to whomever is sitting on this information, if common decency wont bring you forward, maybe the cash will. If I were a betting person, I would put my money on drunken morons because several of the eggs were smashed outside of a bar. The person/persons who did this should be punished. I know that the swans can lay more eggs but that is not the issue. This wasn't a joke or harmless prank. Anyone who would do something like this has no conscience, no respect for boundaries and a serious disregard for life. Not exactly someone I would want living next door to me. Would you? So, come on people! Grow a pair, call the police and tell them who did this so justice can be served. Manny and Faye are mourning. They deserve closure even if they wont actually know they've received it. Or will they? You don't know.

Photo by Gary Walts of the Post Standard

Manny and Faye Swan have begun building a new nest and Faye is expected to lay more eggs in the next week or so. The Village of Manlius is building a floating nesting platform in the middle of the pond to keep the "vandals" away. As John Walsh would say, 'let's get these scumbags off the street'.

Po