Target the Goose Is Okay! (Probably)

Original photo by Stephen Sandoval

The goose that was shot in the neck with an arrow in Prospect Park last week—cruelly nicknamed Target—is going to be okay! According to the Brooklyn Paper, the goose came right up to parkgoers over the weekend and ate food out of their hands, and the arrow was nowhere to be seen! The witnesses said the wound was healing, but "you could still see right through the hole.”

Park administrator Tupper Thomas says her staff noticed the arrow falling out, and it's believed to have fallen out on its own without having hit any vital parts; most likely it hit a fatty portion of the neck. One park worker said the goose is likely in good health, noting if it "was infected, the other geese would have sensed it immediately and killed it—they’re nasty like that."

Meanwhile, where's the arrow? This is the only link to Target's would-be assassin!

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By Jen Carlson in News on June 21, 2010 3:12 PM

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youngpro

damn it...

'they’re nasty like that'--- exactly the reason why these pests need to be eradicated IMMEDIATELY.

when the pond near my home in my small summer village upstate (scotia, ny, for all you interested parties, and you can look up the good problem yourself if you don;t believe me), we would smash eggs rather than have the parks dept come in and poison the geese that were living. it's more humane and there's no pain involved

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Relieved but he might nit survive Bloomberg's plan to gass them. Again they will round the geese in the parks and gass them even though the geese that are near the airports are from canada. The geese in the parks don't migrate since they have food in the parks. So not only are thet not solving the problem and killing the wring geese. The solution is to change the environment near those airports. Also margarita lopez from housings plans to kill 700 cats in Ravenswood projects instead of allowing a Rescue group to trap them,neuter them. And release them. Quinn, bloomberg have been the worst enemy for our 4 legged friends. :(.

FelixtheCat & Christine Quinn'

Sorry for typos. Sent from my 1g iPhone.

youngpro

i'm pretty sure iPhone or Apple aren't to blame for your stupidity or your always-present spelling mistakes.

first you claimed to have a 3g iphone, then you littered a post with a comment and claimed you had an 'imported' iPad 4G; when i called you out on the clearly misspelled line in your signature 'SEND from my 4G iPad' which SHOULD be 'SENT from my iPad'- which btw you clearly added since it doesn't appear for posting things- you now revert back to your claim of 1g iPhone, which even then is incorrect because the default signature should read 'Sent from my iPhone'- no '1G'

Attempt to show off: FAIL