Old Goose Story (kinda long, but funny)

[LillFilly]

My family got attacked by a big swan (trumpeter or whistler or something) at a petting zoo/nature area thing when I was little. Dad stood in front of us all, and luckily the bird was mesmerized by his big shiny silver cowboy belt buckle and attacked that instead. I remember hearing 'DIING! PINGGG!' Until we managed to back away and run!

Evil, evil birds. Their wings can break your bones.

PS. I looked up the goose in the video; that was a Chinese Goose that apparently (looks really similar to the African Goose), has been domesticated in the US. http://www.ashtonwaterfowl.net/chinese_geese.htm Guess nobody told the GOOSE that!

[MadMike]

Crap, I just realized I put this in the wrong place. How do I move it?

The best way is to either PM a mod, or report it. That brings it to our attention a lot faster than waiting for us to stumble across it.

Where do you want it moved?

[noone]

The best way is to either PM a mod, or report it. That brings it to our attention a lot faster than waiting for us to stumble across it.

Where do you want it moved?

Ah. I'm not entirely sure. I guess War Stories?

[BeeMused]

LOL That story is a keeper for sure!
Geese and swans are quite dangerous, esp. when startled or feel cornered or protecting their nest. Here in Hamburg it happens frequently with the swans on the Alster lake. As kids we learned fast to stay away from nesting swans.

[mharbourgirl]

Hah. And the Hubster LAUGHS when I inform him in total seriousness that a flock of Canada geese is a crucial part of my zombie defense plan.

We'll see who's laughing when the yard is littered with bits of zombie coated in that horribly toxic goose crap.

[taxguykarl]

Hah. And the Hubster LAUGHS when I inform him in total seriousness that a flock of Canada geese is a crucial part of my zombie defense plan.

We'll see who's laughing when the yard is littered with bits of zombie coated in that horribly toxic goose crap.

Not as far-fetched as you think. See the first one here.

[mharbourgirl]

Not as far-fetched as you think. See the first one here.

How do you think I came up with the idea in the first place?

I also live in garbage-bear country. If you know anything about bears, you know that they love to eat rotten stuff. The stinkier the better. A bear can smell something dead through 6 feet of dirt. A zombie outbreak would be better than the annual salmon run as far as bears are concerned.

Eagles like dead stuff too, they're almost as lazy as bears. And I've got a few Bald Eagles the size of pterodactyls around here.

Coyotes. Feral housecats. Raccoons.

And floating bogs, if all else fails.

I'm in a pretty good location as far as zombie defenses go, I gotta say. Winter lasting 7 months doesn't hurt either.

[AccountingDrone]

I can handle goats, and I can think of a great way to fix the geese and swan problem. I've never had swan, but I bet it'd be tasty.

nope, stringy and fishy. Fowl start to taste like what they eat, which is why you never eat street pigeon or swan. [garbage, muddy weeds and small fish]

[Geek King]

The evilest of birds is the Emu. Foul, foul beasts. I spent a good portion of time when I worked for a summer camp chasing one around the grounds that had gotten loose from a local farm. By the end of the summer, it had destroyed three canvas tents, and nearly gutted most of us at one time or another with those very LARGE, SHARP spurs on the feet. At the final staff lunch, we all raised a toast to the hopes that the bastard bird would freeze slowly and painfully in the upcoming Ohio winter.

[Rena_Muffin]

Hah. And the Hubster LAUGHS when I inform him in total seriousness that a flock of Canada geese is a crucial part of my zombie defense plan.

We'll see who's laughing when the yard is littered with bits of zombie coated in that horribly toxic goose crap.

You just reminded me of a story. When me and a few friends in my anime club went to Canada for an anime convention, we were stopped outside a store while the club administrator and president were getting us some bus passes so we could go to the location of the convention. While waiting outside the store, something gray and small flew at my friend's (we'll call her A) face. A luckily ducked in time but when we calmed a bit and looked at the object, it was a pigeon. We have since dubbed Canada as land of the Canadian attack pigeons. They could certainly join the geese in the zombie defense plan.

[wolfie]

A couple animal stories from when I was around 5 years old:

My father and I were at a picnic table, and he had a drawstring bag of nut-and-rasin mix. Both of us were holding out single nuts to try to entice a squirrel to eat out of our hands. Squirrel had other ideas - grabbed the drawstring and tried to run off with the whole bag.

Another occasion, I was wearing a bright red cloth hat (roughly the same style as a Tilley, but this was before Tilley went into business). A hummingbird must have mistaken it for a flower, because it tried to eat from one of the ventilation eyelets.

[PepperElf]

THIS is why geese make good guard animals.
i've read that in medieval times the commoners couldn't have dogs - only the royalty could. but they could have geese..

[Megg]

So now you know why "goose" is also a verb.

Your poor sweetie ... but I couldn't help but at this line!