I hit a goose and now my neighborhood is at war

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has smelled troll yet?

I definitely did. The OP called herself a goose killer (the exact term someone used on the guy who killed a goose, on the Lakelands listserv - after one person called him that, many others followed suit). And also the writing style of OP - a sentence on each line. There are several such troll threads by OP. I think the other one about a trashy room mate is also by this OP.

You can ask Jeff in Website Feedback to check whether this is a serial troller. Just provide links to the threads you suspect.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lol has anyone here actually had to wait for a goose to cross? or better yet, a pack of geese?

they are sloooooow. and then once they get about 3/4ths of the way across, they veer and start back. or they plop their goose butts down and have a rest for a bit.

i sat in traffic on 50 while about 6 geese took their sweet time out in the road. we were stopped for 10 minutes when a sheriff hit his lights and siren to drive down the shoulder to find out what the backup was about. guess he figured it was a wreck or broken down car, but nope, it was geese. he got out of his cruiser and tried to get them to move but they kept taking their sweet time and honked at him. he went back in his cruiser and got a sport-top water bottle and started squirting them. that, oddly enough, seemed to do the trick and got them to hurry. no amount of honking, inching closer to them, or yelling worked before that. 17 minutes later we were moving again but waze showed that a significant backup had already happened from them.

Zomg, 10-15 minutes of your time. Definitely worth more than some animal’s life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:lol has anyone here actually had to wait for a goose to cross? or better yet, a pack of geese?

they are sloooooow. and then once they get about 3/4ths of the way across, they veer and start back. or they plop their goose butts down and have a rest for a bit.

i sat in traffic on 50 while about 6 geese took their sweet time out in the road. we were stopped for 10 minutes when a sheriff hit his lights and siren to drive down the shoulder to find out what the backup was about. guess he figured it was a wreck or broken down car, but nope, it was geese. he got out of his cruiser and tried to get them to move but they kept taking their sweet time and honked at him. he went back in his cruiser and got a sport-top water bottle and started squirting them. that, oddly enough, seemed to do the trick and got them to hurry. no amount of honking, inching closer to them, or yelling worked before that. 17 minutes later we were moving again but waze showed that a significant backup had already happened from them.

I keep a spray bottle in my car for exactly this reason.

[Anonymous]

I neither know nor care if this is a troll post, but it is easily the funniest damn thing I've ever read on here.

#notafail

[Anonymous]

If you google I hit a goose with my car a lot of examples come up from all over the country and Canada. Geese seem to be a major problem. My take aways from quick research are below.

1. The only people getting in trouble with the law are the ones who are joy riding and are intentionally mowing down an entire flock or intentionally going after the baby goslings.
2. Geese are more durable than you think. One was hit by a Papa Johns delivery car and was stuck on the car's front grille but survived.
3. Geese do not move when they see a car, hear a honk or even when the car is literally rolling on top of them. They stand their ground.
4. Geese have attacked people included bikers, children, golfers etc. People have suffered broken bones, abrasions etc.
5. From the Canadian forums, Canadians really hate these geese and are happy when someone hits them.
6. Feeding geese should be illegal because they become even more brazen around people.
7. Horse farm people really hate geese because bacteria in their poop kills the horses. The geese crap in the pasture and the horses get exposed when grazing so horse people will shoot geese.
8. Geese will attack and watch your body language. If the OP had gotten out of the car to check on the goose the others would have attacked her.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you google I hit a goose with my car a lot of examples come up from all over the country and Canada. Geese seem to be a major problem. My take aways from quick research are below.

1. The only people getting in trouble with the law are the ones who are joy riding and are intentionally mowing down an entire flock or intentionally going after the baby goslings.
2. Geese are more durable than you think. One was hit by a Papa Johns delivery car and was stuck on the car's front grille but survived.
3. Geese do not move when they see a car, hear a honk or even when the car is literally rolling on top of them. They stand their ground.
4. Geese have attacked people included bikers, children, golfers etc. People have suffered broken bones, abrasions etc.
5. From the Canadian forums, Canadians really hate these geese and are happy when someone hits them.
6. Feeding geese should be illegal because they become even more brazen around people.
7. Horse farm people really hate geese because bacteria in their poop kills the horses. The geese crap in the pasture and the horses get exposed when grazing so horse people will shoot geese.
8. Geese will attack and watch your body language. If the OP had gotten out of the car to check on the goose the others would have attacked her.

Stop trying to keep this troll thread alive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I neither know nor care if this is a troll post, but it is easily the funniest damn thing I've ever read on here.

#notafail

Hmm, a fake thread about a fake OP hitting a fake goose with some fake animal suffering thrown in for kicks. It doesn’t take much for you, does it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You could actually be charged with animal cruelty. You can't just run an animal over in the road and keep driving. Now if a dog runs out in front of you and you are not at fault thats one thing. But to see a goose crossing and decide you are more importand and just run it over, thats just cruel and you can be charged.

There was an incident in Laurel recently where someone ran over seagulls intentionally, The Police are looking for the suspect.

Agree.

How self-important you are that you couldn't just wait a few minutes and then you justify by saying you "nicked" it, even though you saw you killed it.

You realize the bird could have just flown away, and none of this would happen. If you have the gift of flight, and choose to not use it, you’re the asshole. I’m not waiting for anything that could fly away.

You realize that if OP's tacky sub-development hadn't gone with a pretentious pond, the geese wouldn't have been there in the first place.

The environmental nutters forced the complex to build a pond, to replace a swamp somewhere else that got filled in.

Look up "no net loss" rules regarding wetlands.

Even if you don't have a wetland, you still might have to create one.

[Anonymous]

OP here. Be very, very glad you live somewhere where there is no active Junior League and it’s a “thing”, and that only Beyoncé uses the term “ladies .”
I live in the Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill area, and one look at the Raleigh Junior League page here and the fact that debutantes and cotillions are still a thing should convince the naysayers that such a thing does exist and yes, it is indeed called The Ladies Neighborhood Ornament Exchange.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I neither know nor care if this is a troll post, but it is easily the funniest damn thing I've ever read on here.

#notafail

Hmm, a fake thread about a fake OP hitting a fake goose with some fake animal suffering thrown in for kicks. It doesn’t take much for you, does it?

nope, and clearly it doesn't take much for you either, since we're 17 pages in and you're still commenting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one has smelled troll yet?

I definitely did. The OP called herself a goose killer (the exact term someone used on the guy who killed a goose, on the Lakelands listserv - after one person called him that, many others followed suit). And also the writing style of OP - a sentence on each line. There are several such troll threads by OP. I think the other one about a trashy room mate is also by this OP.

You can ask Jeff in Website Feedback to check whether this is a serial troller. Just provide links to the threads you suspect.

Someone already did and he confirmed there is no proof OP is a troll.

[Anonymous]

I this thread.

[Anonymous]

best thing about this thread is the title.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here. Be very, very glad you live somewhere where there is no active Junior League and it’s a “thing”, and that only Beyoncé uses the term “ladies .”
I live in the Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill area, and one look at the Raleigh Junior League page here and the fact that debutantes and cotillions are still a thing should convince the naysayers that such a thing does exist and yes, it is indeed called The Ladies Neighborhood Ornament Exchange.

If the Junior League is against animal abusers like OP, I might have to join.

[Anonymous]

You can ask Jeff in Website Feedback to check whether this is a serial troller. Just provide links to the threads you suspect.

Someone already did and he confirmed there is no proof OP is a troll.

I get very tired of the constant troll criers. Seriously, if you have no interest in the goose outcome then don't read. If you live in such a state of paranoia that you think the OP must be a troll then just avoid the thread.

Hitting a goose seems very likely based on how often it seems to happen in many different places. I had no idea geese that are such jerks. A Ladies Christmas Ornament Exchange apparently is a thing too. I assumed it would be southern but if you google there is a HOA development in Pleasnaton CA that has one. They are all over Pinterest so it happens elsewhere.