Don't Give This Guy a Gun!

[Bullrock]

ATTLEBORO, Mass. (AP)
A Rhode Island man charged with stomping to death a Canada goose, and five goslings said he did it because he felt threatened by the birds.

John A (Blahblah), 33 pleaded innocent at his arraignment Monday in Attleboro District Court on charges of animal cruelty, and disorderly conduct.

According to the police report, he was walking on the campus when an adult goose hissed at (blahblah), who slipped and fell in the mud.

"Angered by his fall, he began his rampage, chasing the goslings, and kicking them," the report said.

A witness reported seeing (blahblah) running across the grass, shouting and stopping to jump up and down. The witness called police, who found two goslings flattened on the parking lot, and three more dead on the grass.

The adult goose, believed to be the goslings mother, was taken to an animal hospital in West Bridgewater, where it was euthanized Sunday because it's injuries were too severe,

(blahblah) subbed for real name....

 

[Avizpls]

was that on CNN?

 

[jefnvk]

A Rhode Island man charged with stomping to death a Canada goose, and five goslings said he did it because he felt threatened by the birds.

Unfortunately, I can see logic in there. Geese are not nice birds. Geese have come after me more times than I care to remember, usually in parking lots where idiots are feeding them. Golf courses, too. They seem to think that they have to attack anyone that is near them.

The goslings were probably not a threat, though.

 

[kjm]

I'd feel much better if he would have ate them!

 

[Handy]

The "Goose threat".

 

[k_dawg]

kicking or batting an attacking goose would be acceptable.. but "stomping to death"???

 

[Skeetin'870]

I dislike geese very mich but Goslings their so damn cute
Baby Geese

 

[Capt. Charlie]

Yeah, ya gotta watch those razor sharp teeth and claws on them geese.

 

[steelersfan0000]

Yeah geese are leathal??????????????????????

Skeeten870 BUSH WON

 

[utaherrn]

stomping geese to death is not nice. I'll be interested in how much time he serves compared to a crime against another human being. How much time will he serve compared to someone convicted of assault and battery?

I don't like crimes against animals, shows a lack of humanity, but these crimes seem to carry heavier punishments/longer sentences than crimes against humans of a similar nature. Just my pet peeve.

 

[Skeetin'870]

Yeah geese are leathal??????????????????????

Skeeten870 BUSH WON

Damn straight liberal but seriously if your at TFL your a cool liberal

 

[novus collectus]

Maybe they should charge him for poaching the geese.

 

[jefnvk]

Maybe they should charge him for poaching the geese.

novus, you are brighter than the DA (and that is serious, not sarcastic)

I still maintain that Geese are not nice animals. Luckily, last time one came after me, we were in the marsh, hunting ducks (Geese also just happened to be open). He tasted good.

 

[Christopher II]

My only problem with what Blahblah did is that it wasn't slow and painful enough. While stomping geese to death is acceptable in a pinch, setting them on fire, or feeding them through an industrial sausage grinder is much better.

- Chris (2-time Canada Goose Attack Survivor)

 

[Wraith]

Damn straight liberal but seriously if your at TFL your a cool liberal

Not if you support John-gungrabbing-Kerry. :barf:

 

[Trapp]

Geese? Charged with a CRIME?.........God save us. They are just stupid birds! (please no one with the "what are you a Nazi?" stuff...........)

 

[Mike Irwin]

FEW animals are nice animals when protecting their young.

Hell, even HUMAN animals aren't very nice when protecting their young.

I don't buy for a second that this guy felt "threatened" by a goose that hissed at him.

If the story is to be believed, he started to back pedal, slipped in the mud, and got pissed off because he was muddy.

That's not a response to being threatened, that's an uncontrollable rage response.

A few years ago in the DC area we had a similar situation with a golfer who beat a goose to death with a golf club. He claimed that he was defending himself from a hostile goose, the other golfers around him told a much different story, that he got pissed off because the goose interfered with his golf ball.

 

[SBrocker8]

If he really DID just get pissed, and stomped the baby geese cause of that, I'm sure he'll only get a fine.

Canadian geese CAN be pretty pissy, too. I used to have a gaggle that lived at a pond near my house when I was little, and they'd only let me get close enough to throw them their stale bread. Never got attacked, though.

 

[novus collectus]

Canadian geese CAN be pretty pissy, too.

I don't want to seem like one of the self righteous correctors, but it is Canada geese not Canadian geese unless they have citizenship. Then they would be Canadian Canada geese. (sorry, pet peeve)

 

[K80Geoff]

Obviously the sensible answer here is to ban Golf Courses and Parks.

Canada Geese tend to hang out all year in these places instead of migrating as they are supposed to. Another example how humanity is destroying the planet.

Put in a sporting clays course where the golf course is now and Geese won't hang around. I am for sensible Golf Course Control. Where is Chucky Schumer when we need him!!!