You don't tug on Superman's cape, you don't spit into the wind..

BillW@honeywell

and you don't mess around with geese! While driving to work this AM, there was a minor traffic jam caused by several Mother Geese escorting about 20 goslings of various sizes across the road, from pond to field. Most people waited patiently, but "Mr. Big" had to jump out of his Escalde to shoo these pesky critters out of the road so he could get moving. End result? The adult geese attacked him and ran him right back to his SUV, to howls of laughter from the assembled multitudes. I was laughing all the rest of the way into work. The things you see on the road...

Firedragon_4

BTW, most of us who golf have read

about this or heard the story, but;

If you hit a goose, don't leave it injured, it's still protected although I'd like to kill them all. You must kill it, FACT!

You are reponsible for all of the vet bills and then the Feds assess their usual 'treble damages' thing. If you kill the damn thing the fine is nothing compared to the vet. BTW, you can also eat them, although I've been told they taste like a pig's heart cooked in motor oil, yummmmm!

Dave Yates (PAH)

humnnnnn

Don't much care for the adult birds either - they're the one animal that poops more than it eats! While recently leaving a local landfill, one little fat fuzzy gozling (sp?) came waddling out into the roadway where those great big garbage trucks constantly roll by. Who can hate a baby?!? So I parked in the road and escorted (herded) the tyke off into the weeds. Happy I am to not have suffered the same fate you witnessed(G). Gotta wonder what dem geeses is gonna look like after growing up on a leachate pond - yuck.

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jerry scharf_2

wooden legs

It's good to know animal psychology.

I once had to tend to a bunch of geese, and I really don't like the critters. So I came up with a plan. I went to the pen with a 2x4 covered in denim. Whenever any of the geese came up to bite me, I would put the 2x4 in front of my leg. The first time the big male did this, there was a satisfying thunk he stood there dazed for about 1/2 minute. After they all had tried once or twice, they never tried again. I stopped carrying the 2x4, since they now knew I had wooden legs.

jerry

Mike T., Swampeast MO

Had to look it up to be certain, but birds don't urinate (they combine #1 & #2) and since geese tend to take in a lot of water with their food you get a really big mess...

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/zoo00/zoo00096.htm

JimGPE_10

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Which geese are so protected? Any particular breed?

Firedragon_4

Firedragon

Read the part about migratory birds.

http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/dfwgoose.htm

\"Maine\" doug

Now that's smart.

We had 4, sometimes 5 of the big white geese in the stream in the back yard. When hungry and the stream was frozen, they would come up to the back door and bang on it. They could be agressive in the spring and bother the kids until one of the adults went out with the broom to shoo them back down to the stream. Sometimes they would wander across the street. I can remember one day they were in the middle of the street when a VW bug came by. He did the same thing, got out and tried to get them to move. They chased him back into the car. After they added to their flock, I captured them and relocated them to the town pond. Noisy buggers when trapped in a big box in the back of the van.