Can this be the next Oscar winning film?

I think I've found my calling. Finding awesome news articles. As a follow up to the vagical tale I last discovered, I just found this one about a swan finding love after a drunk guy murdered his girlfriend.

I felt like I was part of a skit on SNL or Kids in the Hall when I read this. The fact that someone beat a swan to death is not funny. At all. But a swan love story kind of is.

Perhaps it's just the way the article is written that amuses me. The references to the tag numbers on their legs. The fact that these swans have names like "Lacey, Angela and Nick" and that someone is monitoring them and who they date. Above all, it simply reminds of me of Adam Sandler making swan references on my beloved Billy Madison, circa 1996.

Also, I would like to know more about this drunk guy on a bender. Imagine waking up in the morning and realizing you murdered a swan? Frig. What the hell is wrong with people?

All jokes aside, I am happy Nick and Lacey found each other. May their days in the barnyard be filled with love and happiness.

Check it out:

Swan finds love after drunk man killed mate
By Laura Cudworth, QMI Agency

STRATFORD, Ontario. -- After losing his mate and offspring to a young man on a bender last season, it looks as though Nick the swan might be on his way to finding love again.

Nick lost his mate Angela and offspring last season when a young man on a bender killed Angela and destroyed her eggs. Nick spent the rest of the summer swimming near the nest and keeping to himself.

A young female, leg band number 543, followed him around but Nick wasn't feeling very social.

"He chased her over the dam," said swan volunteer June Kinsman.

Then another female, number 529, followed him and attempted to get close.

"He was having none of it. He chased her over the dam," Kinsman said.

Finally, a young female known as Lacey followed but kept her distance.

"She followed him all autumn and in the barn yard,"Kinsman said.

Over the weekend they busted out of the winter quarters and made their way down to the Avon River.

The winter quarters are close quarters and as spring approaches instincts to mate kick in and the cobs can get feisty.

"We have at least five mating pairs in the winter quarters and things are getting really aggressive in there," said Quin Malott, manager of forestry and parks.

Nick and Lacey can't fly but a five-foot wingspan and a bit of wind is enough to lift them over the fence, especially when they're being chased by another swan.

"They have been courting so we're going to leave them out there. There's a lot of open water and we're going to feed them," Malott said.

Nick has led Lacey back to the area of the old nesting site but no one knows what might come of it.

Regardless, watching him connect with another swan is encouraging and shows it's possible to get back up after a sad event, Malott suggested.

"It's a happy ending to a tragic story."






Favourite of the Day: My new iPhone. It's simply amazing. I tweeted to @SomethingGirl yesterday: "I want to make sweet sweet love to it" She replied "I'm sure there's an app for that". No doubt there is.

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