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NYC pulls trigger on mass execution of geese
For the past several weeks, the last thing you'd want to be is a goose in New York City. Hundreds of them have been "euthanized," in an attempt to keep the skies safe. You may remember the impact that geese can have on a plane from a year and a half ago, when an unlucky bird forced a US Airways plane out of the sky and onto the Hudson River.According to the Associated Press:
Carol Bannerman, spokeswoman for the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services, said Monday the department was asked to remove Canada geese from more than a dozen locations within seven miles of city airports.
In Brooklyn's Prospect Park, for example, around 400 geese were rounded up and killed using carbon dioxide – "because they are a risk to planes," the article continues. Last summer, the body count hit 1,200, which is what it's expected to reach this year.
[photo by mikebaird via Flickr]
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Bob Jul 14th 2010 10:15PM
This is rediculous. So the authorities unilaterally kill every goose within 7 miles of an airport because of ONE incident? What's next? Cranes? Swans? Crows? Deer, coyotes, etc. sometimes get on runways and are hit by planes. Therefore, we should kill every living creature within a 7 mile radius of every airport in the country, just to be safe. And if any animal wanders into that 7 mile zone, we should have government officials standing by to blow their heads off.