I accidentally ran over a swan, so I took it home and ate it - can I be hanged for treason?

Question

It was quite gamey. I roasted it but it was a bit overpowering so I made a huge stew - that was much nicer.

Why are people getting upset, I said it was an accident. Should I have just left it's corpse for the foxes? My kids had that for tea two nights running.

I've brought you some sandwiches Noezzelle, I thought we could go for a picnic. Y'know, away from the wife & kids....

Answer 1

Just say it was a Whooper or Beswick swan. Only Mute swans belong to the crown and they're not saying anything.

Answer 2

hmm...think you're at it, but i'll answer nonetheless...

jack straw signed the protocol in 1999, abolishing capital punishment. so there is no law that you could be hanged for breaking.

however, swans are a protected species so even if you did run over it, and that it was an accident, you could still be charged.

All swans are protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act of 1981 although the mute swan has had special protection since 1482 because the species is owned by the Crown.

A small number of shooting licences are granted each year to farmers if they can prove swans have damaged their crops. In all other cases it is an offence to be in possession of a swan carcass, even if the bird died of natural causes.

Answer 3

I find this swan talk scandalous, and I'm gonna report you.

I just spent six hours looking swan recipes on the 'world wide web' and you, my friend make me SICK. The swan is a thing of beauty and property of our wonderful queen. Our British troops go to war to defend her right to be the only person to eat swan, and your making a f**king mockery of it. What will "Johnny Foreigner" think, eh? that this kind of sick behavoiur is OK?

I eat badgers, which are technically vermin and are over breeding, destroying our countryside and attacking our children.

Answer 4

Well, I'd be looking over my shoulder if I were you, listen for that ominous knock on the door. Ask yourself, was it worth it? Apparently swans actually taste pretty rubbish, and if you add in the tyre tracks and bits of tarmac - yukky!

If I could I'd give you extra points merely for the correct use of 'hanged' (most people would probably have gone for 'hung') - hurrah, it gives me hope for the English language!!

Answer 5

Technically all swans belong to the queen so I guess that you can probably be hung drawn and quartered then have goats lick the skin off your feet before being boiled alive in oil.

Answer 6

Of course not! Treason is defined as an act of deliberate betrayal. You ran that swan over by accident. So, no worries.

Answer 7

Well, all swans in Britain are property of the Queen, so, maybe. If you nick a postman's royal mail bike you can get 10 years for it, because all of the Royal Mail's bikes are the property of the Queen

Answer 8

Theoretically yes, but when tony blair stopped the Kosovans recieving benefits they went to Richmond and started rounding up the Swans. Her compassionate Majesty was rumoured to have contacted John Prescott; " those foreigners are eating my birds!"Prescott offered to Kill the Kosovans with his two Jags but Her Majesty declined. She preferred to bribe them instead.
So it was said benefits were restored and the swans stopped disappearing. Now I see the kosovans at canada water tube station chasing canada geese. Now the've got the EU on their tail.

Answer 9

In the UK swans are a protected species as they all belong to the Queen...

I doubt what you say is true, but if it were, you could possibly be in trouble for not reporting it to the authorities.

Answer 10

Nah. You'll probably die of food poisoning. C'mon! A swan that couldn't get out of the way of a car?

My friend, you ate a sick swan.