Brian Comer, a 64-year-old white man, was accused of illegally hunting geese at a golf course on the day Trump amplified racist lies about Haitian immigrants in the city.

Brian Comer, a 64-year-old white man, was accused of illegally hunting geese at a golf course on the day Trump amplified racist lies about Haitian immigrants in the city.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1812·
    9 hours ago

    The thing that actually needs to happen here is make hunting geese legal.

    They are trash birds. And there are too many of them.

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        142·
        9 hours ago

        OK, here me out: an Iron Dome but instead of keeping missiles out it keeps geese out.

        • anon6789@lemmy.world
          7·
          9 hours ago

          Sounds potentially messy if we don’t scale it down. Would feat the purpose for me. The actual geese I am fine with, it’s the insane amount of geese dumpage that I do not approve of.

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
      51·
      7 hours ago

      First Nations eat them birds. I’ve heard they’re fine eating. Of course, it depends where you hunt them. I met a guy who said they’d string a net over a beach at dawn or dusk during migration. He spoke highly of the event.

    • Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.ca
      101·
      9 hours ago

      Canada Geese are protected by the migratory birds act between Canada, US and Mexico. The only thing communities can legally do is take the eggs so they don’t hatch.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        41·
        5 hours ago

        Well I wish they’d migrate once in a while, because they’re around here all year. They’re also mean if you happen to walk by one and they enjoy blocking traffic.

        I fucking hate geese.

        • Canadian_anarchist@lemmy.ca
          4·
          4 hours ago

          Oh, I agree. I have far too many memories of being chased around parks as a child in Regina by them. I’m not saying they are wonderful creatures, rather that their legal protections limit what we can actually do about them.

          • girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 hours ago

            I grew up in Regina and remember my dad talking about not being able to swim in Wascana Lake because of the goose poo/cattle poo contamination.

            Fyi Regina is one of the only major cities in North America not built on a major natural water source.

            Wascana lake was created in 1883 by damming Wascana Creek, a low flow seasonal run-off stream, to serve as a reliable water reservoir for the town and railway (the railway used it as a watering hole for the cattle they transported)

            The lake continued for a time to be used as a domestic water supply and for stock watering; it also supplied the new legislative building. A longer term effect resulted, however, when lake water was used to cool machinery in the power plant (now the Powerhouse Museum) that was built in the eastern sector. Heated water returned to the lake, causing that sector to remain ice-free through the winter, and several species of migratory birds made it their year-round habitat.

            Canada geese are one of those, so Regina has a year-round population as well.

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wascana_Centre

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        44·
        9 hours ago

        And at this point, that act should be amended. The Geese are fine. There’s no reason to protect them now.

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          11·
          8 hours ago

          It has more to do with the fact that they are migratory birds. The egg thing is a carve out specifically for them due to their shittiness and that’s literal.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 hours ago

        It’s like Canadians took all of their negative emotions, stuffed them into Canada geese and sent them south.

        Cobra Chickens are mean.