SOP. Note that he was cited. He MAY get his rifle back after appering in court. The “due process” is not done yet.
For now he does not have that rifle to commit more crimes with. While I may not agree, but the thinking is that he will think more about his actions since it may cost him a rifle, or whatever the “gun” was.
But they are such assholes.
Like all Canadians. 
Hey, now, I hardly ever fly south and poop all over people’s yards!
From what I’ve seen in a situation where the animals truly are a nuisance, there isn’t a need to shut up, It’s kind of expected that you will do what it takes. For example the ranchers I knew hated hole-making animals, because of the danger of cattle stepping in the hole and breaking a leg. They just carried a gun in the truck, and whenever they saw a Gopher or Badger or whatever, they just killed it, and filled in the burrow enterance if they could find it.
They’d have probably loved stupid geese around though, give the coyotes something fat and stupid to catch instead of their calves.
Do Canada geese poop as much as the Canadian ones? When I was working down at the Science Center, sometimes on nice days I’d walk over from downtown rather than taking the second bus, and there was goose poop EVERYWHERE.
I remember one incident when a racoon invaded a garbage container in our neighborhood and some young lady who worked for Animal Control stopped by to consult with us on how to deal with that animal.
I recall asking her if the Racoon was considered vermin and if so, whether or not it posed a danger to the children in the neighborhood because it could pass on some disease to them if it bit them.
If so, I asked her what would be wrong with just shooting it and burying it. She looked at me as if I was some serial killer and would not answer my question and would not speak to me again.
I definitely got the impression that she thought I might have been the very worst person in the world.
If she truly felt that way, I have two questions I’d like to ask.
What is she doing working for Animal Control? Why would she choose that kind of job if she feels so strongly against shooting animals that can be dangerous to humans?
Wouldn’t the entire neighborhood be better off if someone just shot it and buried it and said nothing more about it?
I have seen what a Racoon can do when it bites a human and it sure isn’t pretty. That is assuming it is disease-free. But if it had Rabies or some other disease, wouldn’t the victim have to go to a hospital to get checked out? Wouldn’t the victim have to go to a hospital to get checked out regardless? I mean we don’t know if it is diseased.
Racoons can inflict a Hell of a lot of damage on a human - never mind a human child.
In any case, she put on these very heavy gloves and went to move the Racoon out of the garbage container. It reared up and hissed at her. Seemed like a clear warning that it was going to bite her. But it didn’t.
I really just didn’t understand. But from now on, the one thing I will certainlly do if this happens again is to keep my mouth shut. No matter what I choose to do, I will def not tell anyone about it. I’ll do it in secret and forgo the thanks that I think the neighbors would want to give me. But I sure don’t want to see a Racoon attacking any of the neighbor kids if they stumble over one by accident.
I dont know. It happened years ago.
The Canada geese problem is one of our own making, as are the raccoons in the trash.
We’ve killed (and are still killing) the predators of these creatures, and we set up lovely safe food-filled havens for them. And then we bitch about them??
The geese don’t need to migrate anymore, those beautiful corporate ponds are lovely year round habitat, and the goslings don’t have snapping turtles and foxes to worry about. If the ponds happen to be part of an industrial complex on the edge of town, it’s just a short hop the farming area where there’s plenty of delicious feed available.
The raccoons are opportunistic omnivores (much like humans) and are smart enough to hang around easy food sources, especially if there are lovely safe dens around. For the most part they don’t WANT to attack people, they just want to live their lives. And if the scary big male coon on the block gets shot, guess what? There’ll be another one very happy to take over his territory in the blink of an eye.
Keep your garbage contained - tightly.
Close up holes under buildings, don’t let sheds stand abandoned.
Keep fancy ponds to a minimum, and employ scaring techniques (dogs, motion sensor noises etc)
We are supposed to be smarter than the wildlife, this shouldn’t be that hard!
what about your crops? how are you going to protect those?
your city/township probably has an ordinance against discharging a firearm in residential areas.
Noisemakers, dogs (there are teams specifically trained to harass geese and move them on) and convince neighbors to make their surrounding areas unfriendly to birds seeking a safe nesting area. Geese won’t bother standing corn, don’t know about soybeans or other crops, but they do like newly harvested fields where there might be dropped grain.
I’m not saying that it isn’t a giant PITA, just that it can be done without killing, and that it needs to be a community effort.
It seems to me that IF we’ve reduced / eliminated their natural predators THEN there’s nothing wrong with us substituting our own predation pressure.
That too needs to be a community effort. One landowner killing all the pests he/she can find while the neighbors actively or passively feed, house, and therefore breed them is unproductive. If everybody gets behind the cull the problem is easily managed with only low periodic effort.
Possibly.
Except that man is (generally speaking) a lousy predator when it comes to population health of the prey species. We kill the fat & strong, not the old, weak and sick.
Hey, it’s a feature. The old, weak and sick will die soon enough on their own, it’s the young/strong/healthy that will hang around breeding MORE of them. 
There’s a family recipe for raccoon. They have four drumsticks. Canada geese fed by humans are pretty tasty. Swans taste like roast beef (this is hearsay). I’m too lazy to do any of this but if I got hungry enough, it could happen;)
I’ve a friend who has a business chasing geese- kayaks and border collies. The company contracts with insurance companies, who have nice big green grassy lawns and attractive waterways with cattails, goose heaven.
Honest, they all flew into this recently dug ditch and died on impact. Darndest thing I ever saw.