Swan attack making waves

Posted by matsublog

Posted: June 18, 2008 - 1:43 pm

From Mat-Su reporter Zaz Hollander:

Note to anonymous young ladies on personal watercraft: Don’t mess with the swans on Big Lake.

A lake resident filmed two girls on a watercraft, revving right through a family of swans off the Big Lake Lodge dock last Thursday.

A baby swan reportedly dragged itself onto the lakeshore before it died, though it’s not clear whether that cygnet was a watercraft victim. The swan family showed up at the dock Wednesday morning with three babies.

Now the search for the swan killers is on.

Lodge owner Houston Snyder posted his video of “the attack” on YouTube last week. Snyder ended with: “If you know them, let them know what you think … Please forward to all your friends!!”

The video had nearly 600 views as of news Wednesday. A news story that ran Tuesday night on KTUU Channel 2 in Anchorage filtered through the airwaves. An NBC affiliate in Knoxville, Tenn., ran the story with the headline “Girls accused of killing baby swan.”

“The NBC affiliate in Burbank called to see if we’d release the YouTube video,” Terry Snyder, Houston’s wife, said Wednesday. “Ellen hasn’t called yet. Or Matt Lauer. This has gotten to be quite the thing in Big Lake.”

Look for Zaz's full story later online and in print. Meanwhile, here's the YouTube link, see for yourself.

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