Culture Florida man kicked swans in the head while practicing karate - and laughed about it, Orlando police say

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article209934014.html

The Florida man wasn’t only kicking the swans, witnesses said — he was also laughing when he noticed onlookers reacting in shock.

Orlando police arrested Rocco Joseph Mantella, 34, on Thursday after witnesses reported seeing him “disturbing and kicking swans” at Lake Eola Park. Mantella faces cruelty to animals charges, police said.

Mantella was practicing karate and kicking the animals “as hard as possible,” according to witnesses at the public park in downtown Orlando. He kicked two swans in the head so aggressively that the birds toppled over, WESH reports.

At one point he left a walking path in the park expressly to pursue a swan, according to witnesses. One witness described Mantella laughing when he saw her reaction to his attacks, WFTV reports.

The suspect wasn’t only targeting swans, either. Police said Mantella also kicked a duck that seemed to be sleeping before his assault, the Orlando Sentinel reports.

When authorities arrived at the scene, they were unable to locate the injured swans, according to WESH.

Mantella was taken to the Orange County Jail, where he was held on $1,000 bond, according to jail records. He is a resident of Jacksonville Beach, Florida.

 

[MalWart]

Considering that he isn't too far away from there, it sounds like someone has earned himself a preemptive ban from Disney World:

 

[RP 520]

Can we just bulldoze Florida?

 

[TheClorax]

Can we just bulldoze Florida?

Nah, we just need to dig it off from the rest of the U.S. and make it an island.

 

[Y2K Baby]

Nah, we just need to dig it off from the rest of the U.S. and make it an island.

They'll grow stronger with inbreeding...

 

[Caesare]

As a Native Floridian (I know, I should be in a museum), here's my only problem with the "Florida Man" thing: Most Floridians are transplants from the shittier parts of the country.

People flee the weather, taxes and people of New York, Cleveland and Boston then do wacky shit in Florida and now every time I go on a date here in Chicago, I have to explain how I'm not a goose head kicking, bathsalt eating, heroin addict and that's not fair.

I'm terrible enough on my own without carrying the burden of a state that is shaped like a dick and known home to the elitist pricks and poor criminals in the south and the Hills Have Eyes types in the panhandle.

Absolutely. The native Floridians are normal. It's the transplants from the Northeast that are the reetards. Their massive service economy also attracts a certain type of unsavory resident.

every time I go on a date here in Chicago, I have to explain how I'm not a goose head kicking, bathsalt eating, heroin addict and that's not fair.

Wait a minute, Chicago people have the nerve to tell you this?? You should laugh in their faces and mock their atrocious Midwestern accent. Florida on it's worst day is still at least 10x better than Chicago on it's best. A cold, bleak wasteland. Florida has pristine beaches, Chicago has blizzards, the choice is simple.

 

[ForgedBlades]

Swans are just gussied up geese, and therefore deserve to be kicked in the face.

In fact, I would like to team up with Florida Man to form a vigilante group that goes around kicking all waterfowl in the face.

 

[nonnewtonian]

I’m amazed the swans didn’t attack him on sight. They’re mean motherfuckers. The pair that nest near my grandparents’ place are so vicious they scare off the geese to the other side of the lake.

 

[QB 290]

Swans are assholes, you ever try feeding them they'll cut your hands to get the food and even attack smaller waterfowl just for the sake of it. Waterfowl in general just seem to absolutely suck (see mallard ducks).

That being said, that guy looks genuinely insane and attacking wildlife that can't fight back is a pretty cuntish thing to do. He can practice his karate with a black guys dick up his ass.

 

[Coldgrip]

Swans are assholes, you ever try feeding them they'll cut your hands to get the food and even attack smaller waterfowl just for the sake of it. Waterfowl in general just seem to absolutely suck (see mallard ducks).

That being said, that guy looks genuinely insane and attacking wildlife that can't fight back is a pretty cuntish thing to do. He can practice his karate with a black guys dick up his ass.

He wasn't attacking defenseless wildlife, he was kicking the shit out of a swan.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I've heard of "man bites dog" but this is ridiculous.

As a Native Floridian (I know, I should be in a museum), here's my only problem with the "Florida Man" thing: Most Floridians are transplants from the shittier parts of the country.

People flee the weather, taxes and people of New York, Cleveland and Boston then do wacky shit in Florida and now every time I go on a date here in Chicago, I have to explain how I'm not a goose head kicking, bathsalt eating, heroin addict and that's not fair.

I'm terrible enough on my own without carrying the burden of a state that is shaped like a dick and known home to the elitist pricks and poor criminals in the south and the Hills Have Eyes types in the panhandle.

So... your state sucks because it takes in too many refugees?

 

[Tin]

Dude's lucky he didn't get his Achilles tendon snapped by an enraged swan's beak.
That poor sleeping duck though.

 

[Male Idiot]

Swans are good eating and kicking them in the head is metal as fuck. They are pests that had been a bane in the local river and lake ecosystems.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Nah, we just need to dig it off from the rest of the U.S. and make it an island.

Yeah, just like Bugs Bunny did.

However, I wonder what should we do if the swan or goose attack us first?