In a stunning display of showing Canadian geese who is boss, the Port Authority is going to "round up" 495 geese at Rikers Island and "feed them to needy families." Yes, it'll be like Olde English Christmas time, when goose was served for dinner (though Gothamist thinks English Christmas geese are the nice, white ones). While animal activists are aghast, the Port Authority says that the geese are a menace to planes at LaGuardia. They are a menace to drivers - last week, seven geese snarled rush hour traffic as they wandered around the Cross Island Parkway. Animal rescuers spent four hours looking for the geese, but they got away.
There is a Coalition to Prevent the Destruction of Canadian Geese, Gothamist wants to know would you choose to stay - pigeons or geese? It's a hard call; really, geese do not disturb most city life, but in the parks, forget about it - geese poop is really really gross. But at least they don't poop from the air (we don't think).
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That's a tough one. I love animals, so I really wouldn't want to have to choose either one. But as a runner and a golfer, I'd like to see the population of geese cut back or moved away.
Sorry to get nitpicky, but they're called "Canada geese", not "Canadian geese".
anything that tastes good after a good rosting is up for the eating to me.
Who on earth would willingly eat a city goose that spends its days eating slurry off the bottom of the river? Go ahead and curb the population - I'm usually an animal advocate, but when it comes to these evil little fuckers, kill 'em all. But don't eat them!
the midwest is overrun with the geese too
Erikka brings up a good point. Is the Port Authority going to test the geese for toxics?
Plus, I wonder what the relative cost is of killing and processing the geese vs. buying chicken wholesale for needy families.
For sh*ts and giggles, try www.geeseclothes.com
While they're at it, do you think they could round up a few other Canadian menaces? I'm thinking Bryan Adams could feed a lot of hungry people, although he'd be a bit lean. And you'd have to test the meat for toxic levels of Molson. Come to think of it, Conrad Black might taste a bit gamey due to age but he'd be nice and tender what with all that fat.
Why does everything annoying and Canadian have to fly down here and poop on stuff? I'm looking at you and your shitty films, Jim Carrey.
Those geese are so full of sh*t that if you cut one open you'd probably be enveloped in a full-on sh*tstorm.
I say leave 'em alone.
1. Do we have some sort of chicken shortage I dont know about? There are about a billion chickens in the US (Pretty sure that number is right) that are very edible.
2. A few other people said this, but its worth saying again, these geese are living by the airport and eating our of the river? Lead, Mercury,and whatever the hell is in jet and car exhaust? Homeless people are less toxic.
3. Where is the ROI? Ok, the city wants the geese gone. Fine, we dont have to discuss the 10,000 other more pressing issues but I do have to say, the cost of rounding up 500 birds who dont seem to give themselves up to easy, then, dress them (like the groucho marx routine) and cook them? What do the billable hours on this goose chase add up to? $50, $100? Cant we get Perdue to sponsor this?
there is something unnerving about having to kill all these geese (just like last summer when some nj towns were "gassing" them in specially designed trucks), but their droppings are a serious biological hazzard. i heard that canada geese poop is responsible for something like 80% of the beach closings most years (it gets washed into river runoff, then to the ocean, etc.).
Ah, Tom Lehrer, always ahead of his time.
> All the world seems in tune
> On a spring afternoon,
> When we're poisoning pigeons in the park
> Ev'ry Sunday you'll see
> My sweetheart and me
> As we poison the pigeons in the park.
http://www.letssingit.com/tom-lehrer-poisoning-pigeons-in-the-park-8rt7zq6.html
Canada geese poop is seriously noxious. Bleurgh.
Three random points:
1) I thought the big deal was that the Canada geese were causing problems at the airport. They are big birds and can cause real problems with real airplanes.
2) Canada geese are evil colonialists. We were down in New Zealand, and there they were, a gaggle of geese intimidating the local paradise ducks! Well, the kiwis solved their deer problem with helicopters, high powered rifles and hungry European gourmets.
3) The only person I know who has tasted Canada goose claims that they taste awful. Granted, her mother, who did the cooking, was a good shot, but had no kitchen skill with game. My friend suggests slow braising in red wine might make the meat palatable, but she'll have the shot grouse.
Three random points:
1) I thought the big deal was that the Canada geese were causing problems at the airport. They are big birds and can cause real problems with real airplanes.
2) Canada geese are evil colonialists. We were down in New Zealand, and there they were, a gaggle of geese intimidating the local paradise ducks! Well, the kiwis solved their deer problem with helicopters, high powered rifles and hungry European gourmets.
3) The only person I know who has tasted Canada goose claims that they taste awful. Granted, her mother, who did the cooking, was a good shot, but had no kitchen skill with game. My friend suggests slow braising in red wine might make the meat palatable, but she'll have the shot grouse.
I work on Rikers Island. I tell you from first hand experience that these birds are a pain in the ass. Just the other day a bus ran over one by accident. It was disgusting. Bird guts everywhere. They shit on your car, near your car, on the walkways... and it you get to close to their young, they will chase you! They have no natural predators so they reproduce uninhibited by the natural selecetion process. Let someone finally put them to some good use, dinner!
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