fair or fowl?
Posted: 6/7/2004, 11:55 pm
My friend sent me this article, and I thought that goose poop had been unfairly overlooked as a world issue in here.
http://www.canada.com/regina/leaderpost/news/story.html?id=6617d397-37e4-45cb-96c0-f50b6fe42c05
Here's the text:
Park goose attacked him
Jana G. Pruden
The Leader-Post
May 29, 2004
A Regina man broke his collarbone in two places and is off work for at least six weeks, after being winged by an angry goose in Wascana Centre.
Jason Trehas said he was riding his bike through the park at about 5:15 a.m. Friday when he came up to a mother goose and about 15 goslings on the path. The goose flew toward him, hitting him on his left side and knocking him off the bike path and into a tree. The goose then fled the scene.
"It just wandered off like nothing had happened," Trehas said.
And while Trehas admits the bird was just protecting its young, he says things are starting to go a little foul on the banks of Wascana Lake.
"Other years there have been geese here and there, but now they're everywhere, and it's not only just the goose poop, if they're harming people that's an issue."
Ken Dockham, director of operations at the Wascana Centre Authority, says he's never heard of a goose attacking a human unprovoked and that many people who use Wascana Centre aren't in a flap about the park's goose population -- which has recently become a hot topic for some Reginans.
"I think most people would say they're kind of majestic, they're kind of nice, even if there are too many of them," Dockham said. "But (the geese) have got it made, really. They know that they're not being harmed, people feed them, the grass is good, why would they go anywhere else?"
Dockham says there has not been a significant increase in the goose population at Wascana Centre this year, and notes that rumours about three feet of goose poop on the bottom of the lake have been greatly exaggerated.
Wascana Centre Authority has tried a few goose-ridding gimmicks in the past, including blow-up owls and inflatable alligators purported to keep the birds at bay, with little success. Even the annual goose roundup, which attempts to re-locate about half of the park's geese to northern Saskatchewan, is largely ineffectual, Dockham said.
But after his run-in, Trehas has some ideas of his own.
"If some churches want to have some fowl suppers, I know where some Canada geese are," he says.
© The Leader-Post (Regina) 2004
http://www.canada.com/regina/leaderpost/news/story.html?id=6617d397-37e4-45cb-96c0-f50b6fe42c05
Here's the text:
Park goose attacked him
Jana G. Pruden
The Leader-Post
May 29, 2004
A Regina man broke his collarbone in two places and is off work for at least six weeks, after being winged by an angry goose in Wascana Centre.
Jason Trehas said he was riding his bike through the park at about 5:15 a.m. Friday when he came up to a mother goose and about 15 goslings on the path. The goose flew toward him, hitting him on his left side and knocking him off the bike path and into a tree. The goose then fled the scene.
"It just wandered off like nothing had happened," Trehas said.
And while Trehas admits the bird was just protecting its young, he says things are starting to go a little foul on the banks of Wascana Lake.
"Other years there have been geese here and there, but now they're everywhere, and it's not only just the goose poop, if they're harming people that's an issue."
Ken Dockham, director of operations at the Wascana Centre Authority, says he's never heard of a goose attacking a human unprovoked and that many people who use Wascana Centre aren't in a flap about the park's goose population -- which has recently become a hot topic for some Reginans.
"I think most people would say they're kind of majestic, they're kind of nice, even if there are too many of them," Dockham said. "But (the geese) have got it made, really. They know that they're not being harmed, people feed them, the grass is good, why would they go anywhere else?"
Dockham says there has not been a significant increase in the goose population at Wascana Centre this year, and notes that rumours about three feet of goose poop on the bottom of the lake have been greatly exaggerated.
Wascana Centre Authority has tried a few goose-ridding gimmicks in the past, including blow-up owls and inflatable alligators purported to keep the birds at bay, with little success. Even the annual goose roundup, which attempts to re-locate about half of the park's geese to northern Saskatchewan, is largely ineffectual, Dockham said.
But after his run-in, Trehas has some ideas of his own.
"If some churches want to have some fowl suppers, I know where some Canada geese are," he says.
© The Leader-Post (Regina) 2004
I don't really think you're a vicious, flea-bitten spreader of disease... but I like geese. 
I could just deal without their poop. Walking the track in gym class in high school SUCKED. 
you sat down on my bed! and hugged blue! 
