# Of geese and co-workers. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 16, 2009, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593 "2009-01-16T14:29:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/21 "2009-01-16T15:23:11Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > Hissing. Not honking. They honk while they’re waaaay over there. They hiss when they attack. Oh, believe me, I know. I was chased by a few as a kid. The official story is that they want bread, but I think it was just bloodlust. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/22 "2009-01-16T15:23:33Z")
(Continuing my meditation on following logical statements to an illogical conclusion.) As I understand it, the management of migratory waterfowl is in the hands of the US government. The Feds imposed a ban (or restrictions?) on goose-hunting that (I guess) once made sense. Now the beasts refuse to migrate and are pests. Time to bring back more hunting. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/23 "2009-01-16T15:23:56Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > The fuckers are everywhere, yet ‘endangered’. I never got that. [Canada geese aren’t endangered.](http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/information/Branta_canadensis.html) It looks like one subspecies, which lives in the Aleutians, was on the endangered list, but was removed in 1990 due to increasing numbers. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/24 "2009-01-16T15:24:58Z")
I don’t fuck geese! I _hate_ fucking them. The one time I tried-- pate all over the satin sheets. ---
**Author:** ![OtakuLoki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ac8455/32.png) [@OtakuLoki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OtakuLoki)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/25 "2009-01-16T15:26:44Z")
AIUI, it’s not that they’re endangered - it’s simply that they, and many other nominally migratory birds are protected by the [1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Treaty_Act_of_1918). They’re Federally protected, but not endangered. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/26 "2009-01-16T15:27:26Z")
We get them in our parking lot during migration seasons. They are mean, noisy, attacking poop machines. I go outside and chase them away with a broom. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/27 "2009-01-16T15:31:48Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > That’s why I only fuck hamsters. You have to wrap them in duct tape so they don’t explode when you do. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/28 "2009-01-16T15:35:41Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > (Continuing my meditation on following logical statements to an illogical conclusion.) > > As I understand it, the management of migratory waterfowl is in the hands of the US government. The Feds imposed a ban (or restrictions?) on goose-hunting that (I guess) once made sense. Now the beasts refuse to migrate and are pests. > > Time to bring back more hunting. They are developing plans to deport them as undocumented migrants. ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/29 "2009-01-16T15:36:52Z")
At my old job we used to keep golf umbrellas by the door and escort clients out to their cars using it as a barrier when the geese claimed the parking lot as theirs. The one with the longest pokey thing was the most popular (just in case one got aggressive enough to take a jab at). ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/30 "2009-01-16T15:38:25Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > You have to wrap them in duct tape so they don’t explode when you do. Fourteen trips to the pet store … I had to learn it the hard way. ---
**Author:** ![zenith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e19b73/32.png) [@zenith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zenith)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/31 "2009-01-16T15:39:43Z")
My thought was that once they got the survivors onto their new flight(s), they all ought to be allowed sit in first class and dine on gourmet-chef-prepared roast goose dinners. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/32 "2009-01-16T15:48:43Z")
Canada geese and white tail deer are the two animals that I remember from my childhood as being “cute” and even worth pointing out, “Ooh, look, a _deer_” “Look, kids, a _goose_!” Now you can’t turn around without tripping over one or the other. When I lived in Greenwich, CT, some years ago, there was a story in the paper about a guy who snapped and beat a goose to death with a golf club on a golf course where the all-pervasive shit – the geese’s, not the golfers’ – had ruined the greens. I remember it because while the act was universally deplored, only about half deplored the cruelty of it, while the other half deplored the inefficiency of a golf club as a means of geese dispatch. My sister’s work building in Charlotte NC fronts on a beautiful small man-made lake. The grounds have become infested by aggressive geese that not only shit the place up, they literally chase the business guests across the parking lot. She (the manager), at the landlord’s request, asked repeatedly that employees not feed the geese. But some people still brought loaves of bread from home to feed them because _they’re so cute!!_. So now in her office, one of the work offenses for which you will be written up, is feeding the goddam geese. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/33 "2009-01-16T16:17:12Z")
> [@Jodi](#): > > So now in her office, one of the work offenses for which you will be written up, is feeding the goddam geese. Dogs. Your office should adopt some nice medium to large sized dogs that are allowed off leash to chase geese. That’s what cleared up the problem here. There was a town pond used for swimming that was being made unusable by aggressive geese and their tons ‘o’ shit. They passed an exception to the leash law to allow people to take their dogs to the pond and let them run off leash, and urged the owners to encourage the dogs to chase geese. Not that the dogs needed much urging. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/34 "2009-01-16T16:24:02Z")
> [@OtakuLoki](#): > > AIUI, it’s not that they’re endangered - it’s simply that they, and many other nominally migratory birds are protected by the [1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migratory_Bird_Treaty_Act_of_1918). They’re Federally protected, but not endangered. Damn the geese and their powerful lobby. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/35 "2009-01-16T16:26:44Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Dogs. Your office should adopt some nice medium to large sized dogs that are allowed off leash to chase geese. > > That’s what cleared up the problem here. There was a town pond used for swimming that was being made unusable by aggressive geese and their tons ‘o’ shit. They passed an exception to the leash law to allow people to take their dogs to the pond and let them run off leash, and urged the owners to encourage the dogs to chase geese. > > Not that the dogs needed much urging. 😃 We have several small profitable companies in the area that use Border Collies to patrol parks and corporate grounds to keep the geese away. Great rant **Biggirl**. ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/36 "2009-01-16T16:29:10Z")
> [@groo](#): > > That scene (the end of the first or second episode?) locked me in: the hero wasn’t required to be a boy scout, and they were letting us know that up front. I love that scene. “Well, damn.” _punt_ (Technically it was the second episode, but the pilot wasn’t originally aired). ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/37 "2009-01-16T16:31:13Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > I believe I remember such a scene from Firefly. That was awesome. Here the guy is giving this friggin’ Klingon speech about cold-blooded revenge and crap, and Mal’s just like, “Right then, off you go” and _SHLORMP_ No, this ain’t Star Trek. > [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Bottle up the pastey remains and call it Goose Butter. Profit! I’ve heard it can be greasy. ---
**Author:** ![incidental](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/22d042/32.png) [@incidental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/incidental)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/38 "2009-01-16T16:35:35Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Me: Only a little crueler than you when you tear into your KFC. Do it! Next time the office orders out - get some chicken! And maybe some pictures of adorable baby chicks. Dead is dead. Does she think a slaughter house is any quicker or kinder? Being sucked into a jet engine sounds pretty instantaneous to me. ---
**Author:** ![buttonjockey308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bcef8e/32.png) [@buttonjockey308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buttonjockey308)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/39 "2009-01-16T16:54:34Z")
> [@fisha](#): > > You must be MN. > > Oh, and I hate geese with a passion. Never met one I didn’t want to take a shovel to. Geese and wild turkeys. Geese have nothing on wild turkeys, those bastards are MEAN. Too bad you couldn’t put down a giant glue board , let the bastards land on it, off 'em en masse and feed a few hungry people. The person in the OP is off her rocker, uh now that I’m thinkin of it, **Biggirl** you don’t work with Curlcoat by chance, do you? ---
**Author:** ![beanpod](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9adbd/32.png) [@beanpod](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beanpod)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593/40 "2009-01-16T17:20:56Z")
Amen. Fucking. Geese. That’s 4th on my list of things I Do Not Miss About Living In New York. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/of-geese-and-co-workers/481593.md?page=3)