The Great Brooklyn Goose Roundup

[RJM62]

For those living around Prospect Park in Brooklyn, the disappearance of nearly 400 Canada geese late last week set off a sense of unease. This honking, flying, vibrant presence, loved by some, loathed by others, had simply vanished. On Tuesday, after people learned just what had happened — the geese were rounded up, crated and then gassed to death by the United States Department of Agriculture — their absence was especially palpable.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/the-great-goose-roundup-the-aftermath/#comments

Be sure to read the comments. Appalling.

-Rich

EDIT: You'll have to scroll up to read the article.

 

[gprellwitz]

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/the-great-goose-roundup-the-aftermath/#comments

Be sure to read the comments. Appalling.

-Rich

EDIT: You'll have to scroll up to read the article.

This is the comment that got me :

Captain Sully Sullenberger is to blame for this.
Had he simply crashed the plane into New Jersey no one would ever know that these horrible flying rats were the cause.
— Rudolph Von Ricter

If you don't want to scroll up to read the article, use this link: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/the-great-goose-roundup-the-aftermath

 

[ClimbnSink]

Good riddance.

 

[Trapper John]

Gotta control the population somehow.

 

[Steve Foley]

They should have put on a goose dinner for the homeless.

 

[AdamZ]

Grant I belive that comment was tounge in cheek.

 

[weilke]

They should have put on a goose dinner for the homeless.

Some places do that.

I am not sure that the usual domesticated park-rats would make for a very healthy meal.

 

[RMCN172RG]

All we have to do is take them off the endangered species list and open a hunting season again.

Like any Goose a little greasy but very edible.

 

[Trapper John]

All we have to do is take them off the endangered species list and open a hunting season again.

I don't know about MI, but around here, hunting Canada Geese is just fine (as long as DNR's rules are followed).

 

[weilke]

All we have to do is take them off the endangered species list and open a hunting season again.

That wouldn't fix the problem in city parks. The flying-rats have become sessile there and live off the handouts of idiots and little old ladies feeding them. Most cities don't allow hunting in public parks (outside of organized culling operations).

It is mildly entertaining that the NYC parks department needs to send their rangers to 'shotgun training' to get the birds they couldn't catch. I bet that wouldn't be needed in Michigan .

 

[RMCN172RG]

I don't know about MI, but around here, hunting Canada Geese is just fine (as long as DNR's rules are followed).

It's the same here but you can't hunt where the Geese are a nuisance.

 

[OffCenter]

They are a heck of a problem here in Jersey. Anyplace that has a pond or lake has geese....LOTS of 'em. They crap all over everything.
I have to laugh at one fellow near here. He has a truck in which he carries a group of border collies. He goes to various business campuses which are over run by geese and charges them (plenty, I'm sure!) to have the dogs chase the geese off their property.
Then....he goes to the NEXT business campus where the geese have landed and has the dogs chase them back again.
The dogs have a ball doing all the work and he's raking in the bucks as a doggie taxi driver.

 

[gprellwitz]

Grant I belive that comment was tounge in cheek.

Let's just say you have more faith in humanity than I. Funny, given your profession!