The tormenting team has been ruthless in their quest for destruction — attacking kids, chasing postmen, vandalizing cars and property — generally wreaking havoc and making the villagers’ lives a living nightmare.
According to an old British law penned in the 12th Century, swans are officially protected by the British Monarchy and thus are exempt from punishment.
Elderly residents living in a nearby residential park said they feared the swans’ wrath so much, at times they were too scared to even leave the house.
"I’m scared to leave the house at times," resident Angela Helbrow, 53, told Metro UK.
Helbrow lives next to the river where the swans hang out and intimidate locals.
"I can’t even go outside to hang up the washing anymore,” Helbrow said. “I was doing my knitting last week and they came right up from the river to the patio doors and began pecking on the window.”
The severity of the situation has gotten so bad that locals have begun to arm themselves with water pistols, garden hoses, and shovels, to fend off the sinister sownder of swans.
"I think the entire community would like to see these swans moved to a more suitable location. I’m sure we and the swans would benefit," local Barbara Morse, 66, said.
A spokesman for the swans' stomping ground said that their perilous attitude is partly to do with mating season.
"For ten months of the year, they are perfectly OK. It is just nature taking its course," he said.
"What can you do? They are protected birds. There is nothing we can do," he said.
