Chicago Gets Googled
Friday Flashback - Old School Oprah
Today's Transgender Day of Remembrance Honors the Dead
Review: Paramount Room
Asian Carp: 'Nice Try, Suckers'
We've told you and told you about the problem Chicago has been having with Candian Geese. The Park District has staged "Find The Eggs So We Can Destroy Them" hunts. It has purposefully given the birds diarrhea. Parks around the city have let their grass, weeds and shrubs grow wild and free. There are whole businesses dedicated to getting them off your lawn.
Perhaps as a result of this onslaught of anti-goose information, a group of children beating geese up. They were caught running at a bird with a bat by a surveillance camera on Goose Island (to add insult to injury), and a witness said they were throwing rocks at the goslings.
All covering of goose eggs with corn oil to cut down the population aside, we are creeped out by this, like in grade school when our friend Brady swung his bat at fireflies so it would glow. We don't know where the line is drawn between "boys will be boys" or hunting or killing geese so they don't poop on our manicured park lawns and future serial killers.
Image via greece.k12.ny.us.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
Taking a bat to the kids sounds reasonable. If they like to be destructive and witness pain just give them each a mirror.
If they don't watch out, their friends might help kill them off, too! Some idiot was feeding a group of geese in the middle of the bike path near North Pond Cafe, just around a blind bend. I very nearly took a few of them out last night... why couldn't he have walked 50 feet into the grass?
Hi, everyone in Chicagoist-land! For the purpose of education only (and not flaming or blog-baiting or any other insulting behavior), I would like to inform everyone that the correct name for these birds is Canada Geese, not Canadian Geese. My ornithology teacher made sure we were aware of that.
maybe they were craving fois gras? little do those youngsters know that those livers can never be fatty enough.
They're not Canadian geese. They'e Canada geese.
Have they tried dogs yet? Geese don't like dogs.
You don't need to kill them. Get a pair of swans--they're very territorial and will chase away uninvited guests.
If pigeons are flying rats, then geese are flying pigs.
And the swan thing is bogus. Come out to Goose Shit Park in Schaumburg by the village hall and see for yourself.
I think that the gosling are cute, and when they grow up look cute on a platter too.