Goose levels golfer, reasserting dominance over all humankind

[Bourbon]

(CNN)Geese are terrifying. Everyone knows this. Their bites hurt like hell and they have no respect for children or the elderly. In fact, they are the second-most terrifying bird behind turkeys (large, tenacious) and ahead of crows (eidetic, vengeful).

So this momentous trio of photographs showing a Canada goose absolutely trucking a high school golfer near Blissfield, Michigan, is just a reminder of the natural order of things. You can have, as one Twitter user put it, a "quiver full of bird maulers" and a whole high school athlete's worth of physical power, but the goose is going to win every time. It's science.

The unlucky human sacrifice here is Isaac Couling, a member of the Concord High School golf team. According to Blissfield Golf Coach Steve Babbitt, Couling, 16, was competing in the Madison Tournament at the World Creek Golf Course in Adrian, Michigan, when terror rained down.
"The group just finished teeing off on hole #7 and were walking down the fairway," Babbitt told CNN in an email. "They were aware of a goose nest on their left which they were looking at but not bothering when from behind them and to the right came the guard goose (protecting the nest)."





Humans need to learn their place in the world ...

https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/24/us/go...rnd/index.html

[ThatOwlWoman]

"Birds rule, everything else drools." -- The Parrots Who Own Owlwoman

Three ounces of pure terror:

[WinterBorn]

This is where that bag full of clubs comes in handy. A 9 iron wins.

[Irish Exit]

This is where that bag full of clubs comes in handy. A 9 iron wins.

It could win you a big fat fine and or jail time. Canadian geese are protected, especially when they are nesting. They are the bane of golf courses because it is so hard to get a nuisance permit to kill them, and you are restricted in the number you can cull. Anywhere geese set up near water, they become a problem. My city has geese crossing signs and traffic on a heavily traveled road sometimes get bottle necked by those things just randomly walking back and forth between the river and a nearby park. Not just like 1 or 2, but whole flocks.

[Celticguy]

Let's get this straight....
Kid with an entire set of long handled bludgens at the ready and the skills to use them falls prey to a f'ing goose ?
Sad, just sad...

[evince]

"Birds rule, everything else drools." -- The Parrots Who Own Owlwoman

Three ounces of pure terror:

my good buddy adopted an cockatoo who is beautiful (even though she pulled her chest feathers long before he got her)

I love her and she likes me too.

she still scares the shit out of me


I'm very careful when I give her a treat

I just look at the beak and know she could cut my finger right off.

[Bourbon]

This is where that bag full of clubs comes in handy. A 9 iron wins.

Because Drivers cost way too much

[evince]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_cockatoo

I believe shes a white cockatoo

[WinterBorn]

It could win you a big fat fine and or jail time. Canadian geese are protected, especially when they are nesting. They are the bane of golf courses because it is so hard to get a nuisance permit to kill them, and you are restricted in the number you can cull. Anywhere geese set up near water, they become a problem. My city has geese crossing signs and traffic on a heavily traveled road sometimes get bottle necked by those things just randomly walking back and forth between the river and a nearby park. Not just like 1 or 2, but whole flocks.

If you are harassing the geese or messing with the nest, you might get a fine or jail time. When the goose attacks you without provocation, I think you are allowed to defend yourself.

[ThatOwlWoman]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_cockatoo

I believe shes a white cockatoo

They're gorgeous, loving, super intelligent, love sponges. I love 'toos.

(And yes, the bigger ones could possibly remove your finger. lol)

[evince]

she hears me walking up to the door and begins screeching.

I have to greet her and say hi before she calms down

I have been trying for years to get her to say "get me a beer"

She kinda mumbled it once

[Irish Exit]

If you are harassing the geese or messing with the nest, you might get a fine or jail time. When the goose attacks you without provocation, I think you are allowed to defend yourself.

You never know with federal courts. My dad had to pay a hell of a fine for killing 4 canadian geese on a golf course WITH a permit to kill them on the golf course because it offended a woman who saw it and his permit to kill them got revoked retroactively after he had killed them because activist blue haired got her panties in a wad and created such a stink that they made-up the permit was "improperly issued" because he wasn't the sole owner of the golf course when that wasn't even a requirement to get the permit to begin with.

[ThatOwlWoman]

It could win you a big fat fine and or jail time. Canadian geese are protected, especially when they are nesting. They are the bane of golf courses because it is so hard to get a nuisance permit to kill them, and you are restricted in the number you can cull. Anywhere geese set up near water, they become a problem. My city has geese crossing signs and traffic on a heavily traveled road sometimes get bottle necked by those things just randomly walking back and forth between the river and a nearby park. Not just like 1 or 2, but whole flocks.

Thanks on behalf of the birds for pointing this out.

The only time I ever saw a wild goose as a kid was once spotting a V of them heading south for the winter, way high up, their calls barely audible. Like so many other things back then, their numbers were in steep decline due to pollution. It's kind of nice to see how they've made a comeback, even though they can be a nuisance esp. during breeding season.

[USFREEDOM911]

If you are harassing the geese or messing with the nest, you might get a fine or jail time. When the goose attacks you without provocation, I think you are allowed to defend yourself.

Sometimes it's better to ask forgiveness, then it is to ask permission.

[Irish Exit]

Thanks on behalf of the birds for pointing this out.

The only time I ever saw a wild goose as a kid was once spotting a V of them heading south for the winter, way high up, their calls barely audible. Like so many other things back then, their numbers were in steep decline due to pollution. It's kind of nice to see how they've made a comeback, even though they can be a nuisance esp. during breeding season.

I see so many of them year round, I am not even sure why they are still protected. There is always a flock somewhere around here, even during winter. I have almost always lived on (literally) or close by golf courses so I see them constantly flying about from one to the other.