It BOGGLES my mind. It's not like they're dropping grenades on us as they swoop, they're just being birds who are protecting their territory for about 6 weeks of the year! Some of them are arseholes who peck and scratch but that's a fraction of the 9% who even do swoop, which is what, 20 in the whole of Australia. Just leave them alone and by Mid-October they're back to warbling away and looking handsome and being completely harmless D:

I'd be haunted by that memory too, what a shit thing for children to have to see :(