LONDON -- Swans may be graceful to look at, but they're also troublesome law breakers.
Earlier this year elderly Brits were forced to use water pistols to defend themselves against aggressive swans, and last November a rogue swan was taken into police custody in Oxford.
This recent incident, which was tweeted about by BCH Road Police, is just the latest in a string of disturbing incidents which have been sweeping the UK.
Officers Warner and Smyth, rescuing a stranded swan from junction 10 of the A1
Good job!
Let the puns begin..
411729 pic.twitter.com/uFw5P2JJx1— BCH Road Policing (@roadpoliceBCH) 9 March 2016
Luckily, despite the fact swans are clearly taking over our fair country one road at a time, people still managed to show a sense of humour about the whole thing.
@roadpoliceBCH is it a mute swan - does he have the right to remain silent?— Matt Robbins (@eggwasp) 9 March 2016
@roadpoliceBCH Looks a bit rowdy that swan, tell him to wind his neck in...— Paul Wilson (@PaulGWilson1986) 9 March 2016
@roadpoliceBCH It's like a scene from a film, Hot Fuzz I think. :-) Good work.— Jonathan Burley (@ZuffleKing) 9 March 2016
"PC Paul Warner caught the swan, with assistance from PC Michael Macleod and PC Philip Watts," a police spokesperson told the BBC.
"It was put into the back of the police car and driven (apprehensively) by PC Justin Smyth to a lake at Astwick Bury Farm [near Hitchin] where it was released."