It was long ago. 1996 or 1997.
Those who lived in Crimea then remember this hungry and banditic time.

Early in the spring morning on the sea shore under Evpatria, a company of drunken half-boomers found a swallow, confused in the networks. A grown-up man released her, holding her firmly in his arms, like a panic goose in the film "12 chairs". The prisoner did not even resist, apparently overnight completely out of power.
Immediately began to discuss various commercial projects - to sell it alive to some rich man, to slay and then to sell, to roast itself.

And 30 meters from the shore, a second swan was swimming.
He swam quietly but somehow nervously, five meters in one direction, five meters in the other.
He just knocked down once, and everyone turned to him.

And here someone from the channels, remembering, apparently, the song of Yevgeny Martynov "Lebbin's Faithfulness", suddenly said:
If we take her, he will kill himself!

Everyone trembled immediately.
Panikovsky released the bird, and she, raising her wings and bending on her legs, bowed to the edge of the water to reunite with the narrow.
Touching their necks, the swan swam to the horizon.

It is a rare case when humanity has overcome greed.