Chinese man booed as he tries to steal swans eggs in park
Police hunting for suspect who raided the nest of protected black swans in Jiangsu province
Police are looking for a man who tried to steal black swans’ eggs in a park in eastern China and then deliberately stepped on one when passers-by confronted him.
The man who appeared to be in his 20s and covered his face tried to take the eggs from a park in Yangzhou in Jiangsu province last Saturday, according to one microblogger’s Weibo account.
The man climbed over a fence and took four eggs from a black swan, which is a protected species in China.
He put two eggs back after a middle aged woman hit him, the Beijing Youth Daily reported, quoting a tourist at the scene.
“The man got booed by people who were touring around the lake, but he ignored us,” the tourist said.