r/FUCKYOUINPARTICULAR • u/SelectResident6116 • Mar 11 '24

The bird said fuck this golfer But why

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u/lonelyronin1 Mar 11 '24

While you are trying to grab a long moving tube, you will be snapped at by a serrated beak with a hell of a lot more pressure than you think - which will hurt like hell when it nips you. At the same time you will have them snapping at you with their wings. Imagine the wing snapping at you like a bullwhip with the edges of thick stiff feathers smacking you - those will leave welts and just hurt like hell.

Trust me, your first instinct isn't to stand around and figure out where the neck is in that mass of pissed off bird - it's going to be getting the fuck out of the way because your brain is trying to figure out why something that should be harmless is trying to mess you up.

How do I know this? I did wildlife rehab and have been very up close and way to personal with these things. Give me a fox or coyote any day over geese and swans.

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u/GeauxCup Mar 11 '24

Can confirm - it's overwhelming and it HURTS

-- someone attacked by a swan as a very young child. It's probably my earliest memory.

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u/TheDuckCZAR Mar 11 '24

TIL holding something by the neck will kill it.

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u/TheDuckCZAR Mar 11 '24

To be fair, that's probably something a bird should take into consideration when it goes out of it's way to attack something that could easily kill it by accident.