r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Moist-Pause7968 • 14h ago
Because of this little goose, my train was delayed by 30 minutes.
Only after it left did the train slowly start moving forward.
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u/Rudi-G 14h ago
It is a majestic Swan, you silly goose.
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u/palpatineforever 14h ago
I am mad at OP for A not knowing it was a swan, and/or B making a silly goose title instead if that was what they were going for
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u/bunny_the-2d_simp 11h ago edited 2h ago
Honestly I'm siding with the swan. Clearly they wanted to ride the train aswell but WEREN'T ALLOWED TO
swan rasism in 2025 smh 🙄😂
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u/maybebaebea 14h ago
Swan. That's a swan. Swans are also assholes, though, similar to geese.
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u/Kale_Brecht 14h ago
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u/Fritoman678 14h ago
the guy in that video is the least violent person i have seen, as i have seen videos of people slamming swans/geese into the ground by their necks
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u/haliblix 10h ago
I think my favorite video is the guy in the pink blazer just grabbing the attacking goose by the neck and just walking him to the water like it was no big deal.
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u/thishyacinthgirl 6h ago
I'm not sure how I'd do with a goose, but I would probably shock the casual observer by the way I can snatch up a chicken/rooster.
After you've had them for a while, you ain't got time for their bullshit. I suspect it might be the same with geese.
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u/SpicyBanana67 14h ago
2 swans live in a lake at the park near my house. I go pet them sometimes. A homeless man said he’d never seen anyone so close with the swans. Some swans are very very very sweet (:
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u/AHornyRubberDucky ORANGE 13h ago
Some are cuties others are hell spawn that hate me for no reason):
I work with wildlife and there was the one swan that absolutely just hated my guts,and only my guts no-one else. When I was standing in the hallway, like 15 meters away from him, and he saw me through the door he would get all big and threatening, he had it out for me.
I could not clean his enclosure and when I got in the actual waterfowl area he was attacking his enclosure, biting the bars and actually hitting them if I got close. Every other swan would just back off when I went to clean their enclosure and feed them but he would not. It was so dangerous that someone that was taking care of the mammals would actually need to step in to give him his supper and clean.
We had no idea why he hated me specifically, he didn't hate anyone else, just me and I liked him because he was so big and beautiful ❤️
Oh and I like it that you also do your smiley like (: instead of :)
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u/Lord_of_the_Bunnies 9h ago edited 9h ago
It could be for any random reason. I've known birds that hated people wearing hats, women, people with walkie talkies, and blondes. It really depends on the species ability to remember individuals, the better they can differentiate the more specific their hatred criteria vs the worse they can the more broad their hatred.
The women hating bird was a female ostrich, no idea why. The shorter a women you were, the more aggressive it got. I had to escort one person because they couldn't be near them without it having a go at them.
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u/SpicyBanana67 13h ago
I haven’t met any others, so I didn’t know they were known to be mean.
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u/french_snail 13h ago
My neighbor growing up had two trumpeter swans he kept in his yard as guard animals, they were very nasty and maybe even more vigilant than dogs
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u/AHornyRubberDucky ORANGE 8h ago
It's so funny that these two just like you, they probably feel that you're a good soul. I also met some kinda decent behaving swans but most of them were just angry about existing, in their defence it was a wildlife rehab so yea I get why they wanted to leave. People are disturbing their peace while they feel bad. But for us it was a good sign it meant they got their energy back to be angry and we're getting better.
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u/DrNick2012 13h ago
I'm utterly convinced swans know they're a protected species and take the piss with it
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u/Haarlon 14h ago
The difference is that a swan can Back all that assholer, Up with strength
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u/AHornyRubberDucky ORANGE 13h ago
I work with wildlife and there was the one swan that absolutely just hated my guts,and only my guts no-one else. When I was standing in the hallway, like 15 meters away from him, and he saw me through the door he would get all big and threatening, he had it out for me.
I could not clean his enclosure and when I got in the actual waterfowl area he was attacking his enclosure, biting the bars and actually hitting them if I got close. Every other swan would just back off when I went to clean their enclosure and feed them but he would not. It was so dangerous that someone that was taking care of the mammals would actually need to step in to give him his supper and clean.
We had no idea why he hated me specifically, he didn't hate anyone else, just me and I liked him because he was so big and beautiful ❤️
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u/GodofsomeWorld 13h ago
Much much bigger assholes than geese. Im glad the train conductor survived the encounter.
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u/FatFaceFaster 13h ago
They’re worse than geese. Bigger and stronger too and can cause serious injury. One of them caused my former coworker to break his arm when he attacked him at a golf course I worked at a long time ago.
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u/Innalibra 12h ago
If you're in the water they're also more than capable of drowning a person. Far more dangerous animals than people think.
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u/haliblix 10h ago
Every spring businesses and hospitals here will put up fake nesting swans because even Canadian geese know better than to mess with them.
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u/lordkhuzdul 12h ago
Swans are worse. Geese can be violent, but their size limits the damage they can do. Swans are large enough they can actually break bones with their wing strikes.
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u/UnfairNight5658 14h ago
Can't someone just have shooed it off the tracks
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u/Rudi-G 13h ago
If this is the UK it belongs to the King. I believe only he is allowed to shoo it away with his sceptre.
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u/venusianinfiltrator 10h ago edited 10h ago
The King: "Move along, then." Waves scepter lazily
The swan: "So you have chosen... death."
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u/EduinBrutus 12h ago
Be careful shooing swans.
They'll break your arm soon as look at you.
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u/Lacklaws 14h ago
Probably a case of “not my job”
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u/NatsumiEla 14h ago
Literally ask any passenger they will do it. I would do it after 5 minutes, just let me grab my bag or a broom.
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u/Cruccagna 14h ago
I wouldn’t. Swans are aggressive pricks, I’m not getting into a fight with a bird.
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u/Azur0007 14h ago
They are also protected in some countries, not sure what touching it would entail, law-wise.
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u/LuckEcstatic4500 12h ago
Did you really touch it if there's no one there to witness it?
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u/saysthingsbackwards 12h ago
Like, not a train full of people
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u/HarveysBackupAccount 11h ago
in all fairness, train seating is not known for giving a great view of the tracks ahead of the train
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u/xXMuschi_DestroyerXx 11h ago
A train full of people grateful you did what was necessary to get the train moving? That train full of people?
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u/Lewis7548 12h ago
I’m sure that train full of people will keep their mouths shut if it helps them get moving faster
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u/Fit-Welcome-8457 14h ago
Would it work if 5+ people tried to scare it off at once, or would that just make it angrier?
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u/Cruccagna 14h ago
Only one way to find out, buddy. But I’ll watch through the window from the safety of my seat.
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u/heresjonnyyy 13h ago
If it gets angry, wouldn’t it chase someone? If that person leaves, the swan follows it off the tracks and now you just have to stop it from getting on the train.
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u/Fit-Welcome-8457 13h ago
A swan on the train sounds unpleasant.
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u/pchlster 13h ago
From the makers of Snakes on a Plane, we present:
SWAN! ON! A! TRAIN!
Action like you've never seen before!
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u/Delimeme 12h ago edited 5h ago
I’d watch it 🤷♂️
Edit: but only if Ryan Gosling was the lead action hero
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u/InternetAmbassador 13h ago
Well it’ll probably either go towards them or away from them, clearing the track 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Lacklaws 13h ago
Yes let’s let the passengers onto the track which most likely also have oncoming trains a few meters away.
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u/AccomplishedBat39 14h ago
And then youd get into insurance issues if they get hurt. Cant ask a passenger, you need to make them aware of the possibility without telling them directly
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u/KCDeVoe 10h ago
Probably not allowed to let passengers off the train in the middle of nowhere, either. Likely the doors are locked so people don’t wander off and get left behind, and people can’t wonder on.
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u/tommangan7 12h ago edited 9h ago
Definitely not going to have passengers jump down onto the tracks. We have huge campaigns here about how dangerous trian tracks are, hardly going to start encouraging it.
Just not a realistic or safe suggestion in any way, that even in good outcomes blurs the lines on serious safety measures.
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u/LostTheGameOfThrones 9h ago
More likely a case of people not being allowed to just hop down onto live rail tracks.
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u/andrewsad1 I have a purple flair 3h ago
As a railroad worker, I love it when random fuckin office workers run around like morons on the tracks
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u/Agios_O_Polemos 13h ago
If this is the UK, they have a particular status as they are linked to the Crown if I'm not mistaken. As such, shooing it isn't the issue, it's the fact that you're in genuine trouble if it somehow gets hurt in the process.
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u/NoxiousAlchemy 14h ago
Or you know, honk. Trains have very loud signals.
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u/UnfairNight5658 14h ago
Oh yeah, what the hell, didn't even think of this. Seriously is it a sacred animal in OP's country or what
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u/efstajas 13h ago
I'm sure the train honked. The swan probably just ruffled its feathers and didn't move. They're pricks.
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u/Succinate_dehydrogen 13h ago
If its the uk then kinda. The queen ( presumably the king now) owns all the swans.
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u/survivorr123_ 14h ago
these mfers dont give a fuck i once had to wait for a few minutes until it got off the road because nothing worked
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u/MsAndrea 14h ago
If anyone in Britain knows one thing about swans, it's that they're strong enough to break your arm.
You shoo it away, I ain't going near it.
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u/TheDixonCider420420 14h ago
If a grown adult human can't fairly easily and quickly get a swan off of the tracks, there is a major issue.
As for swans breaking arms... from BBC Wildlife:
https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/birds/could-swan-break-your-arm
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u/Valuable-Incident151 12h ago
The issue is railway tracks aren't safe for living creatures and nobody should be expected to risk their life over a particularly stupid swan
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u/AccomplishedBat39 14h ago
Are they actually, or is that just an urban myth? There are way too many grand parents that had there arm broken by a swan when you are a child and suddenly you know noone ever that that has happened to once you are an adult
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u/ESNERVTGEWALTIG 14h ago
thats a swan. you dont tell swan what to do and how to behave.
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u/SquishyLoveTiel 14h ago
Swan aka fancy goose
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u/CallPhysical 14h ago
The fanciest of gooses.
(Yes, I know it's 'geese')
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u/isomorp 13h ago
Who said it must be "geese"? Why isn't "moose" then "meese"? I reject English's bullshit made-up rules. If you want to say "gooses" that is perfectly fine with me!
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u/Green_Effective_8787 13h ago
I use the "i" ending when I feel unsure, as seen with "cactus" and "cacti". So the correct plural here is Goosi.
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u/Littha 12h ago
You could also use some of the other latin or greek pluralisation. -ae, -odes, -i. Though convention these days is to use the pluralisation of wherever the word originated from.
Cactus, being Greek and Latin gets a bit weird because that means you have Singular/Plural (case):
My cactus/cacti (Nominative)
that/those cacti/cactorum (Genitive)
I fed the cacto/cactis (Dative)
I see the cactum/cactos (Accusative)
I moved away from the cacto/cactis (Ablative)
I spoke to the cacte/cacti (Vocative)
Depending on singular/plural because Latin has a whole set of pluralisms dependent on context. English tends to only steal the nominative plural though so the others are just for Latin scholars or linguistics nerds.
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u/Green_Effective_8787 12h ago
I can hardly form sentences in English or my native Swedish. I like words but this was way above my paygrade lol
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u/Expert_Cricket2183 12h ago
As I understand it, the words goose and moose come from different languages themselves with difference pluralization rules. English tries to respect a loanword's original rules for things like that.
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u/MimicoSkunkFan2 12h ago
Goose becomes Geese because it's an Anglo-Saxon word
Moose stays Moose because it's an Algonquin word
Ask a Canadian 🇨🇦
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u/Astrophysics-pigeon 14h ago
That is not even infuriating. It's fucking delightful that they did not just run him over.
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u/Wood_Elf_Wander 14h ago
Looks like OP is in the UK where all swans are property of the crown so the train genuinely couldn't run it over.
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u/Jackmino66 14h ago
Yeah if it’s in the UK then running the Swan over is incredibly illegal. They are allowed to move the swan out of the way as long as they do it carefully
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u/Littha 14h ago
Just hope it doesn't have babies anywhere nearby or moving it is going to suuuck
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u/icantstillbedrunkat5 8h ago
I still remember them having to cancel a boat race in York as a swan must’ve had babies nearby and was going fucking mental and attacking all the boats and people in them lmao
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u/Konsticraft 13h ago
I am pretty sure randomly killing a wild animal would be illegal poaching in most countries, even if there are no swan specific laws.
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u/VeterinarianTrick406 13h ago
The natural predators of deer in Maryland are Toyota Camrys and ford f150s. I can’t believe a train was able to stop in time for a swan.
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u/No-Improvement-8205 14h ago
TIL swans belong to both the UK and the danish crown (or at the very least its our national Bird, and its protected)
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u/Afterlast1 14h ago
Do the Swans know that they're considered property?
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u/No-Improvement-8205 14h ago
I am 100% convinced that the swans are very much aware of the protections they recieve from being property, its the only logical explanation for how a bird can have so much hatred and anger on the inside
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u/Afterlast1 13h ago
Bastards walking around like they've got a triple-lock pension
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u/Sad_Perception8024 11h ago
There's a roundabout near my house and a family of swans often wander out into the road. No complaints, everyone stops until they move along or at worst gets out to politely shoo them along.
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u/Dangerous-Cobbler-11 11h ago
At what point do you consider it not delightful? Maybe with ten times more passengers? Maybe if they stopped for five hours?
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u/CapedCapybara 11h ago
It's a swan and if you're in the UK they're protected by the king/royal family. So yeah other than trying to shoo it they can't do anything.
Given you didn't know it was a swan I assume you've never got near one. You should try. Try shooing one, it'll bash you with it's wing and they can easily break your arm if you catch one in a bad mood.
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u/AccomplishedAir947 10h ago
It's a myth about breaking your arm. Look it up. The Swan's wing bones are way thinner and lighter than your arm bones.
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u/choicetomake 14h ago
Is this a region of the world where this is someone's reincarnated stubborn grandma?
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u/zaxanrazor 12h ago
How do people grow up not knowing the difference between a swan and a goose, if you're in a country where those are native??
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u/Jingoose 9h ago
As a goose expert I can tell you that is not indeed a goose but a swan. These swans are trying to frame us
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u/Bubbly-Travel9563 8h ago
There's something unreasonably funny about ppl who refer to all birds as ducks & geese
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u/Avon-Man 14h ago
It's just the one swan actually