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mariness

Murder most fowl:

Jan 16, 2009 23:58

Our kindly friends at the stupid_free and efw communities have alerted me to this, an earnest attempt to alert us to the evil motivations of the airline industry.

In defense of the airline industry, however --

Did I just type that?

Let's rethink that sentence.What this valiant poster has failed to take into consideration, however, is that Canada geese are not ( Read more... )

birds, geese

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funkyturtle January 17 2009, 12:05:36 UTC

Oh they're totally our air defense in case the Americans go crazy and invade Canada. For water defense we've trained our special forces of suicide attack salmon to fling themselves at submarines.

mariness January 17 2009, 14:06:36 UTC

The attack salmon i can deal with. The geese are MEAN.

chattycatsmeow January 17 2009, 14:13:41 UTC

REALLY MEAN GEESE who will run up from nowhere and attack

Oh great. They're probably next on our list of Surprise Personal Animal Encounters.

mariness January 17 2009, 14:40:37 UTC

I'm just surprised they haven't hit us already.

Actually somebody once told me that Disney does try to relocate the Canadian geese when they land in the park.

dewline January 17 2009, 14:25:54 UTC

Such government policies are news to me. Seems a bit at odds with Harper's worldview, to be honest. If it exists, I'm sure he's shut down any such training program.

mariness January 17 2009, 14:41:08 UTC

Well, it only works if it's a top secret program...

alaneer January 17 2009, 15:06:09 UTC

So true. My younger daughter was 3 when geese attacked her. It took me, kicking, than grabbing a stick to chase them off, but she's so scared of them now that it's not even funny. Still, at age 20. They're mean.

mariness January 18 2009, 16:21:37 UTC

I swear at FIU South, people would peer out of the buildings and look for geese before emerging from the building. If geese were present, they'd just go play on a computer or something.

I laughed, and then I saw a couple of the geese attacks -- they were seriously vicious and did injure people. On the environmental level I could tell myself that they were just infuriated that we'd taken away their wetlands and replaced it with a pretty ugly college campus, but on a personal level watching attack birds is pretty freaky.

mr_perker January 18 2009, 11:34:09 UTC

I recently read (somewhere reputable, I'm sure) that they nearly went extinct at one point a long time ago. Their natural habitat is beaches and when north America was more foresty, their habitat was much more limited. Lawns not too far from water are a huge gift to them.

mariness January 18 2009, 16:29:08 UTC

They're still a federally protected species since their numbers are fairly low -- this was one of the problems at the campuses I mentioned. Muscovy ducks can be and are quietly killed, since they are non native, invasive, and in absolutely no danger of going extinct -- but to counter that, Muscovy ducks only attack other ducks, and that rarely -- the issue is more that they're competing with local wildlife for food and polluting local lakes. It's hard, though, to explain to people that the large, really nasty birds that we're attacking children and dogs are protected, while the ducks quietly swimming out in the middle of the lake can be removed by Animal Control and euthanized ( ... )