Seriously! Can We Quit it with the Geese?!

By Alicia Dorr in News on Jun 14, 2007 5:47PM

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.