UPDATE ON THE CANADIAN CRIME CRACKDOWN

They are not messing around up there.

(Thanks to the Perts)

Comments

[Hammond Rye]

Is "your swan won't migrate" a Canadian euphemism of some sort?

[bonmot]

Trucks have legs? You Canadiuks do stuff weird.

[insomniac]

"eh, too brutus?"

[Punkin]

The swan better be careful, or he'll end up in Swantanamo Bay.

Maybe he could migrate if he grabbed onto the husk of a coconut?

[Annie Where-but-here]

'et tu much to fly, Brutus?

(I would think a Canadian winter would be enough to make anyone head south.)

[MOTW]

First class journalism and I loved the photo of the landowner showing Brutus the legal papers.

[nursecindy]

This is disturbing. I had the same thought as bonmot. I also didn't know that trucks had legs. Perhaps it's a Canadian thing.

[trustf8]

Right, MOTW, how silly: they'll never get his cygneture.

[Horace LaBadie]

Does this apply to mothers-in-law?

[bonmot]

Brilliant minds think alike, nc.

[Layzeeboy]

Is this his swan song?

[Meanie the Blue]

If their cars have boots, why can't their trucks have legs?

[Siouxie]

I have a machete I can let him borrow. Brutus chop chop for din din.

[Dad-O-Lot]

He should file eviction papers with the local constabulary to show that he is doing his due diligence to get the swan to migrate.

[Wes S.]

Apparently it's easier for the authorities to persecute, er, prosecute, the landowner because if they just did the sensible thing and sent the animal control people after the swan Brutus would kick their asses for them.

He did break a trucker's leg, after all.

Probably ought to send Brutus to Canada's Parliament. And then Congress.

[mudstuffin]

i'm off to canada. i don't know where they got it, but them boys have been smokin' some potent stuff.

[Coconuts]

Make sure Larry David doesn't get near the place...

[Ralph]

Canada's Migratory Birds Convention Act, amended in 1994, defines swans as migratory birds in Section 2, Article 1 (1). The fact that the swan doesn't migrate is irrelevant to the legal definition; legislators are not required to use common sense. The law also defines "possession" as a person having a bird or part of it "...in any place... for their own use or benefit...." Since this is apparently a one-man swan, it is evidently possessed.

The problem for the game cops is that if they let this one go, others will claim that their wildlife is "just visiting." It's the old excuse of "But officer, I'm not fishing, I was just taking this cute worm on my hook for a swim. He's free to leave at any time."

[mm]

The law also defines "possession" as a person having a bird or part of it "...in any place... for their own use or benefit.."

Since Brutus has Mr. Maieron running around tending his bum leg, taking care of his legal affairs, etc., it would seem that Brutus is the one receiving the benefit, and Maieron the one posessed.