Swan Runs A-Fowl Of The Law On Brigham Street (Video)

“C’mon, bird. Move that way,” the officer barked at the swan.

A rebellious bird ran a-fowl of the law* on Sunday night, staging an apparent protest in the middle of Brigham Street on Sunday, just south of Emmons Avenue.

“A swan was blocking Brigham Street, preventing traffic movement and cars from pulling out from parking lot,” said Pavel I., an authoritarian neighbor with little regard for free expression. “After placing the 911 call, NYPD helped me walk it back to the water.”

Sure, man. As that great American leftist Ronald Reagan once said, “Status quo, you know, is Latin for ‘the mess we’re in’,” and, you, Pavel, are helping keep us there.

Too bad for Pavel, the police, and the powers that be. The swan would not be oppressed, and again took to the streets on Monday where it continued to hold up the, like, four cars a day that go up that dead end street.

But what was the surly swan protesting? Maybe it was Governor Andrew Cuomo’s veto of Assemblyman Cymbrowitz’s swan bill, which aimed to protect mute swans from a Department of Environmental Conservation plan to eradicate them statewide. (That dastardly Cuomo promises that the revised DEC plan will incorporate parts of the bill, which required local input in the planning).

Or maybe the swan was protesting law enforcement’s abuse of force, following the fatal shooting of two unarmed swans upstate.

It could also have just been a slow march to see Selma at the United Artist theater.

Whatever it was, it wasn’t the only case of a taxpayer-funded thug forcing an innocent winged neighbor off public property this week. Noted establishmentarian Yehuda Schupper, a staffer for Assemblywoman Helene Weinstein, brusquely ushered this pigeon out of the local pol’s Nostrand Avenue office on Wednesday and gloated about it on social media.

Folks, this is what a police state looks like!

*I sincerely apologize for the pun. Actually, I apologize for everything. — NB