Brian Comer, a 64-year-old white man, was accused of illegally hunting geese at a golf course on the day Trump amplified racist lies about Haitian immigrants in the city.

Brian Comer, a 64-year-old white man, was accused of illegally hunting geese at a golf course on the day Trump amplified racist lies about Haitian immigrants in the city.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1914·
    2 months ago

    The thing that actually needs to happen here is make hunting geese legal.

    They are trash birds. And there are too many of them.

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        173·
        2 months ago

        OK, here me out: an Iron Dome but instead of keeping missiles out it keeps geese out.

        • anon6789@lemmy.world
          8·
          2 months ago

          Sounds potentially messy if we don’t scale it down. Would feat the purpose for me. The actual geese I am fine with, it’s the insane amount of geese dumpage that I do not approve of.

    • Canadian_anarchist
      121·
      2 months ago

      Canada Geese are protected by the migratory birds act between Canada, US and Mexico. The only thing communities can legally do is take the eggs so they don’t hatch.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        72·
        2 months ago

        Well I wish they’d migrate once in a while, because they’re around here all year. They’re also mean if you happen to walk by one and they enjoy blocking traffic.

        I fucking hate geese.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            2·
            2 months ago

            Seriously. You can’t approach a pond at any of the parks around here unless you want to step in goose shit.

        • Canadian_anarchist
          4·
          2 months ago

          Oh, I agree. I have far too many memories of being chased around parks as a child in Regina by them. I’m not saying they are wonderful creatures, rather that their legal protections limit what we can actually do about them.

          • girlfreddy
            2·
            2 months ago

            I grew up in Regina and remember my dad talking about not being able to swim in Wascana Lake because of the goose poo/cattle poo contamination.

            Fyi Regina is one of the only major cities in North America not built on a major natural water source.

            Wascana lake was created in 1883 by damming Wascana Creek, a low flow seasonal run-off stream, to serve as a reliable water reservoir for the town and railway (the railway used it as a watering hole for the cattle they transported)

            The lake continued for a time to be used as a domestic water supply and for stock watering; it also supplied the new legislative building. A longer term effect resulted, however, when lake water was used to cool machinery in the power plant (now the Powerhouse Museum) that was built in the eastern sector. Heated water returned to the lake, causing that sector to remain ice-free through the winter, and several species of migratory birds made it their year-round habitat.

            Canada geese are one of those, so Regina has a year-round population as well.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wascana_Centre

            • Canadian_anarchist
              4·
              2 months ago

              That is the exact park of my goose encounters, lol. It’s oddly comforting to know I was not their only victim.

              • girlfreddy
                2·
                2 months ago

                It seems the City Creek Stream naturally ran from the canyon into parts of Salt Lake City.

                City Creek Canyon, located northeast of Salt Lake City, collects water from 19.2 square miles of watershed that feeds the 14.5 mile-long City Creek stream. Since the arrival of the Mormon pioneers in 1847 this water supply has been used by first the settlers, and later the inhabitants of the City. It played a significant role in the valley’s early history, as the settlement was based on agriculture through artificial irrigation of the desert soil. City Creek was designated as the pioneer’s first source of water providing both irrigation and domestic supplies. Today it remains an important part of the City’s water supply providing water by gravity flow to the Avenues, Ensign Downs and downtown areas. PDF source

                City Creek is a small but historically important mountain stream that flows from City Creek Canyon and across part of Salt Lake City, Utah, and into the Jordan River which empties into the Great Salt Lake. Source

            • Canadian_anarchist
              4·
              2 months ago

              I wish you the best of luck in convincing them to leave. If you’re successful, you must share your secrets.

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        54·
        2 months ago

        And at this point, that act should be amended. The Geese are fine. There’s no reason to protect them now.

      • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Only the ones that spend their time pooping on every grassy area in America they can find.

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      2 months ago

      First Nations eat them birds. I’ve heard they’re fine eating. Of course, it depends where you hunt them. I met a guy who said they’d string a net over a beach at dawn or dusk during migration. He spoke highly of the event.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

        It’s like Canadians took all of their negative emotions, stuffed them into Canada geese and sent them south.

        Cobra Chickens are mean.