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Feed the homeless!
Topic Started: Aug 31 2017, 03:24 PM (146 Views)
George K
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Finally
Get rid of the vermin.

(one of my partners used to call them "flying rats")

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It was a picture-perfect day at Beverly’s Lynch Park yesterday, but revelers were crying foul over a mass roundup of a gaggle of Canada geese — even though the slaughtered birds will help feed the homeless.

“For shame. I am very upset. They’re innocent creatures. They’re God’s creatures. They don’t harm anybody. They have every right to be here as we are,” said Anita Findlay, a 71-year-old cashier who visits the seaside park a few times a week.

But city officials say the wild geese are a public health risk and they’ve hired a private organization to capture the birds at city parks, school grounds and playing fields.

On Monday, some geese were captured in a big net.

The birds are then taken to another site, according to a Beverly police press release, where they are “humanely euthanized,” following U.S. Department of Agriculture and state Fisheries and Wildlife regulations and requirements.

“According to the contractor,” the release said, the byproducts “of the animals are often times donated to various organizations in need.”

Beverly Parks and Recreation Director Bruce Doig said the people trapping the geese told him the byproducts “are sent to shelters as needed. As far as I know, it’s not around here at all, because they are based out in western Massachusetts.”

Pine Street Inn spokeswoman Barbara Trevisan said goose is not served at the Boston shelter.

“It’s certainly not something that’s happening here at Pine Street,” Trevisan said. “It’s not something that we’re aware of here.”

At Lynch Park yesterday, at least two dozen geese perused the lush green grounds, leaving droppings in their wake. A goose can poop once every 20 minutes, up to 1 1⁄2 pounds a day, according to the police release, and their droppings can contain viruses, bacteria and parasites — which people can inadvertently pick up.

Over the past few years, Doig said, the geese arrive in early to mid-August.

“They are coming down in larger and larger numbers as of this week,” Doig said. “It’s a huge problem. It can be dangerous.”

They’ve looked at different options to get rid of the geese for years, Doig said, such as dog control, but that can be expensive.

The geese were first trapped and euthanized last fall and spring, Doig said, and it worked well.

But the manner ruffled some parkgoers.

“We should just leave them be. They were here before we were,” said Gloucester dad Ryan Dahlmer, who brought his son, Matthew, 5, to the park.

But Rockport mom Brenda Bik said the geese ruin the water and grass.

“I think it’s great,” Bik said, adding, “I just hope the homeless people know they’re getting goose meat.”
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Copper
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Canada geese make a mess out of the ball fields.

Fry 'em.

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Mikhailoh
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Win win!

Around here people stop in the middle of four lane highways to let them cross unmolested. I advance on them aggressively, honking the horn to beat all hell. Roast goose is fine.
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jon-nyc
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Wish my town would do this.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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George K
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Canada goose season is the 1st two weeks of September in Illinois.

Gotta get me a gun...
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Jolly
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Geaux Tigers!
It is illegal to creep geese.

Not saying that I would ever do such a thing, but have you ever tried to give away a pickup truck load of dead geese?
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Mikhailoh
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Can't say that I have. Seems like a dump bed would come in handy.
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Frank_W
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Geese are fvcking MEAN, too! Bloody nuisance. I hate birds. Pigeons, mockingbirds, blue jays... The only birds I like are crows, blackbirds, and ravens. Kill 'em all!
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Jolly
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Folks down here looked on game laws for a long time as mere suggestions (some still do). Geese will congregate in rice fields. Get three or four guys together, pull the plugs out of your shotguns, creep up to the field's levee and everybody shoot at one time. Not unusual to kill forty or more that way.

But if you want a bunch of ducks, you raft them. Float up on a raft (flock) of ducks at night, when they are all gathered up together and shoot them on the water before they can get up. That's how you market hunt.

Knew one old cajun that had a home-made cannon tied on a skiff. It was a muzzleloader made from schedule 80 pipe, wrapped in piano wire. They'd load it up with black powder and used whatever they could find for shot - nails, broken up bits of cast iron, whatever. Point the boat towards what you wanted to hit and touch 'er off.
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Frank_W
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Holy hell! That must have been LOUD!! In Tennessee, the coyotes were getting bolder, and kept encroaching on my land. Once I heard them howling in the side yard, not ten feet from my house, I went back in the house and got the .410. I aimed it up in the air, over a 100-acre horse pasture where the coyotes normally stayed, and fired. Only a .410, but the thing sounds like a cannon! Never had any problem with coyotes getting close to the house again. LOL
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Sidney
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Sep 1 2017, 07:35 AM
I hate birds. Pigeons, mockingbirds, blue jays... The only birds I like are crows, blackbirds, and ravens. Kill 'em all!
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Frank_W
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Okay, okay: I like hawks and owls, too. Better? :D
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