The Birds Strike Back, Hit Mayor Bloomberg's Jet

In June the Port Authority announced a plan to kill 2,000 geese during their molting season to prevent accidents like the one that brought Flight 1549 down in the Hudson River. Mayor Bloomberg immediately voiced his support for gassing geese, telling radio listeners, "There is not a lot of cost involved in rounding up a couple thousand geese and letting them go to sleep with nice dreams." Well, it looks like the mayor's winged targets finally sent a message on Saturday, when one flew into a jet carrying the mayor and about six others from the Hamptons to Senator Kennedy's funeral. In what is surely just the opening salvo between the avian empire and the imperial Bloomberg, the bird failed to fell the French-made Dassault 900EX, though the pilot was concerned that the strike had damaged the landing equipment, and requested emergency ground crews in Boston. The mayor was discreetly informed during the flight, which landed safely, but according to the Post he didn't inform his "entourage." Sure, Bloomberg's not sweating it, but if the rumored alliance between the birds and groundhogs ever happens, he's in trouble.

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By John Del Signore in News on September 2, 2009 12:37 PM

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NannyState

It must've been that sleeper flock that was seen hanging around various mosques in Long Island. They mysteriously took flight 3 days ago, seemingly in a SW direction but obviously that was just a diversionary ploy with the main group headed towards Bloomberg's flightpath. Repeated calls to Peter King's office have gone unanswered...

Amanda Harletsch

karma is a BIATCH!

felixthecat2

great story except that he landed safely.

whitecastlerock

As much as I dislike Bloomberg, I don't wish him any physical harm. Hoping that birds knock his plane out of the sky is in poor taste

TrippinJoJo

Douceberg 1

Geese 4.

go get em!

JacqueMehoff

why wadda you know.

HA! what's the King gonna do now? you know how spiteful the King is.

felixthecat2

The geese know.

From: http://www.fws.gov/blackwater/canadageese.html

Geese form very strong, lasting social bonds. A pair usually mates for life, although when one dies, the other remates. Some Canada geese nest for the first time at the end of their third year. They usually lay 5-8 eggs requiring about 28 days of incubation. The proud parents are very protective of their young goslings. Family ties remain strong throughout the first year.

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It's those family ties that matter now.

Geese remember who hurt their family members.

So, if this miserable moron Commissar wants to remain safe, he better never set foot outdoors (surely never in anything that flies - not even an elevator).

These beautiful birds, so much smarter than Commissar Death and Taxes, can be far more vengeful than this vindictive, hate filled little dwarf, turtle-faced turd.

Go! Geese, go!