There was a photo that went viral that showed a black man in Columbus Ohio ( not Springfield) carrying a dead goose.
No information is available about how the goose died or why the man was carrying him. The man that took the photo, who does not want his name released to the press, has said that he does not believe the man was Haitian.
I will also add that, seasonally, there are a lot of wild geese in my neighborhood……they love the pond across from my house, in the spring I’ll see 6 or 8 adults out with around 30 goslings, it’s very cute.
But the adults are large and become vicious when threatened —- plus they can fly away —and I really don’t see how a human could catch and kill one without using a firearm.
The Springfield City School District in Ohio closed one middle school and evacuated two elementary schools on Friday due to bomb threats as former President Donald Trump and his Republican allies continue to make inflammatory and unfounded claims about the city’s Haitian immigrant community.
The incident marked the second consecutive day of disruptions for Springfield, following similar threats that had prompted the evacuation of city hall on Thursday. It was revealed Friday that Thursday’s bomb threat in Springfield used hateful language against the city’s immigrant population.
Yes, the MAGAs are stooping to school bomb threats.
There’s always the even more implausible possibility that someone lied on the internet and made up the whole story, attributing it to something their neighbor said about their neighbor’s daughter’s friend. I mean people would never lie on the internet, right?
Yeah, I wonder whether the original lost cat (if there even was one) hasn’t come back home by now.
Lost cats sometimes come home. Rumors always just keep going.
Might be helpful to the Haitians. (And it is far more likely to be true, at least as far as canine coyotes are concerned; though in most areas cars, stray dogs, or (especially if not spayed/neutered) a desire for exploration is at least as likely as coyote and in some places more so.)
Also, of course, we don’t know how long this mystery cat had been gone. Cat may have been under a bush in the back yard eating a mouse, and may now be snoozing on its human’s bed, blissfully unaware of this whole mess.
Shit, shit, shit.
Anybody wanna claim that inciting isn’t inciting and never does any actual harm?
Even if there are no actual bombs involved – those kids have not only lost at least a day of school, they’ve been scared shitless. Little kids.
Maybe the friend of the neighbor’s daughter was named Schroedinger?
Yup. Just as an anecdotal data point, the last cat I ever had – decades ago before I became a Confirmed Dog Lover™ was just such a victim. I had the misfortune to come across his deceased carcass while coming home on a country road at night some considerable distance from my house.
Anyway, the Haitian pet-eating story is very obviously bullshit to the point that you have to wonder about the mental health of anyone who seriously believes it. It also has half a million Haitian immigrants in Florida pretty offended, which could have electoral implications.
Yes, this is real, actual harm. Closing? meh. But having to evacuate? Expensive and scary to everyone. People can have panic attacks, heart failures, etc. This could even cause PTSD. It is not a joke.
Evacuating’s worse. But closing isn’t meh; because the kids are going to find out that the reason for the closing is that somebody wants to blow up the school, with them in it. Because they’re in it.
Isn’t that a lovely thing to learn when you’re six, or eight, or even eighteen?
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