I hit a goose and now my neighborhood is at war

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s cold of you to have nicked one or run it over without stopping and at least showing concern. I think it’s cold hearted. You very well know that it doesn’t take five minutes for them to cross the road. You were impatient and could’ve waited.

Now legally speaking, I don’t think anyone can do anything to you and you should just keep quiet and hope your house doesn’t get toilet papered.

"Show concern"? WTH. You mean look to see if it's injured and take it to the vet??? It's not a pet. You people are crazy.

Yes, I might be crazy. But if I hit or injure another living thing it does concern me. I’m OK to be in the minority on this and I really don’t care what random Internet strangers think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s cold of you to have nicked one or run it over without stopping and at least showing concern. I think it’s cold hearted. You very well know that it doesn’t take five minutes for them to cross the road. You were impatient and could’ve waited.

Now legally speaking, I don’t think anyone can do anything to you and you should just keep quiet and hope your house doesn’t get toilet papered.

I believe Canada geese are considered an invasive species and it is legal to "remove" them. See also: house sparrows and starlings.

[Anonymous]

You could contact the moderator on Next-door and ask them to remove the post with your car license plate since you did not commit a crime. If the moderator happens to be part of the save the goose faction then you can escalate to whatever level is above community moderator on Next-door.

You should get the picture of your license plate taken down because eventually one of the goose zealots will post where you live. The animal crazies on Next-door have nothing better to do and they will sit looking out their window trying to spot your car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s cold of you to have nicked one or run it over without stopping and at least showing concern. I think it’s cold hearted. You very well know that it doesn’t take five minutes for them to cross the road. You were impatient and could’ve waited.

Now legally speaking, I don’t think anyone can do anything to you and you should just keep quiet and hope your house doesn’t get toilet papered.

"Show concern"? WTH. You mean look to see if it's injured and take it to the vet??? It's not a pet. You people are crazy.

Yes, I might be crazy. But if I hit or injure another living thing it does concern me. I’m OK to be in the minority on this and I really don’t care what random Internet strangers think.

So you expect that if someone accidentally runs over a goose, they should take it to the vet and have it treated? I agree that calling animal control to remove an injured or dead animal is a good idea.

[Anonymous]

I'm a runner, and in my experience, geese can be real dicks. I've been chased by them before while minding my own business. They don't always move for cars. You could have been there awhile if you'd waited.

I would stop if I hit a dog or a cat, but wildlife? Probably not. I'm an animal lover, but there's something kind of Darwinistic about an animal who isn't smart enough to get out of the way of a car that's moving slowly. I mean, geese can fly. It could have flown away. It didn't. You thinned the herd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did you run it over or did you nick it? I think if you bumped a goose and kept going it's not a big deal.

If you left a dead goose in the middle of the road and went home, even goose haters (hi!) will have a problem with that. You can't leave dead animals in the street and be a good neighbor.

OP here, I nicked it but in my rear view mirror looked to be....still.

[Anonymous]

You're going to be the neighborhood d*ck for awhile, goose killer. No block parties for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you run it over or did you nick it? I think if you bumped a goose and kept going it's not a big deal.

If you left a dead goose in the middle of the road and went home, even goose haters (hi!) will have a problem with that. You can't leave dead animals in the street and be a good neighbor.

Huh? Of course you can leave a dead animal in the road. I'm not getting out of my car to drag some wild animal carcass to the curb. Or what, put it in my car and drive it to the dump? You must be kidding.

--someone who has never run anything over

DP- You call the animal control officer to remove it.

Op, the above poster is correct - did you kill it and leave? Leave it in obvious pain and suffering? Or truly nick it and it waffles away?

This. Geese are pretty big, even dead in the road. You don't want another car to swerve to avoid it and cause an accident. I've never hit one but I have called them in!

[Anonymous]

FYI - In Montgomery County, you can call 311 to have a dead animal removed from the roadway. I’ve reported deer several times and they are pretty quick about getting out there, usually same day. I’m sure it is similar in other jurisdictions.

[Anonymous]

Yup. You should have stopped but now you will be looking over your shoulder for weeks, months. Hope that was a really sweet five minutes you saved.

[Anonymous]

Your mistake #2, OP was to post here to continue the debate of where the geese belong. Have you not read DCUM before????

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did you run it over or did you nick it? I think if you bumped a goose and kept going it's not a big deal.

If you left a dead goose in the middle of the road and went home, even goose haters (hi!) will have a problem with that. You can't leave dead animals in the street and be a good neighbor.

OP here, I nicked it but in my rear view mirror looked to be....still.

You should have called Animal Control to get it cleaned up. I don't particularly like geese, but with 30 crossing the street at once, waiting is the sane person's option. Leaving a giant dead animal in the street because you didn't want to wait is pretty abysmal behavior.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s cold of you to have nicked one or run it over without stopping and at least showing concern. I think it’s cold hearted. You very well know that it doesn’t take five minutes for them to cross the road. You were impatient and could’ve waited.

Now legally speaking, I don’t think anyone can do anything to you and you should just keep quiet and hope your house doesn’t get toilet papered.

What exactly was OP going to do to “show concern”? She wasn’t going to pick it up and cuddle it until it died. And if she outright ran it over, again what is the point in stopping? If OP had run it over, she could have called animal control to notify them to see if they would removed the carcass. Which frankly the people on NextDoor have no idea if OP had called them as she drove away.

OP say nothing. As long as you didn’t intentionally mow down the bird I would just sit back and let the crazies argue.

[Anonymous]

"Dead goose in the middle of the road". Could be a new country song.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s cold of you to have nicked one or run it over without stopping and at least showing concern. I think it’s cold hearted. You very well know that it doesn’t take five minutes for them to cross the road. You were impatient and could’ve waited.

Now legally speaking, I don’t think anyone can do anything to you and you should just keep quiet and hope your house doesn’t get toilet papered.

"Show concern"? WTH. You mean look to see if it's injured and take it to the vet??? It's not a pet. You people are crazy.

Yes, I might be crazy. But if I hit or injure another living thing it does concern me. I’m OK to be in the minority on this and I really don’t care what random Internet strangers think.

So you expect that if someone accidentally runs over a goose, they should take it to the vet and have it treated? I agree that calling animal control to remove an injured or dead animal is a good idea.

I never said that I would expect anyone to take an injured goose to the vet. You’re putting words into my mouth. I think calling animal control to make sure or maybe even just moving it to the side of the road would be concerned. I don’t see where I said anything differently.