Kayaker killed by Swan ?

[glaurenson]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17736292

A man has drowned after being attacked by a swan, which knocked him out of his kayak and stopped him swimming to shore.

On Saturday morning, the married father of two set out in a kayak across a pond at a residential complex in Des Plaines, just outside Chicago, where he was tending the birds.

One of the swans charged his boat, capsizing it, says Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart, whose deputies investigated the death.

Mr Hensley tried to swim to shore but eyewitnesses told the sheriff's investigators the swan appeared to have actively blocked him

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[Randy Fandango]

How tragic and peculiar.
I wonder if the poor guy was wearing a BA?
Giles