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A couple of weeks ago, Libby made a memorable quote. We were watching a large flock of geese beside the canal. There were about 40 Canada geese and two geese of some other variant. Libby said, "Look - there are two gooses in with the geese."
Speaking of geese, Dave and I heard a really surprising story on the news the other day. The while Northeast USA is blighted by a non-migratory kind of Canada Geese. They just stay around all year and multiply and defecate. They are pests. The news is that New York decided to get rid of 375,000 of the estimated 400,000 geese in the state. Hooray for that!
The bad part is that the state did not just declare them to be pests and to allow citizens to kill them at will and take them home to eat (yummy). Instead, the state will spend money to capture and gas the geese, while still forbidding citizens to kill them. That's so stupid and so symptomatic of runaway government that I find it hard to believe.
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Average citizens killing geese in public parks and private lands? Bet the local lawyers would have a field day with that. How would you get rid of 100 geese in a public park with people all around, or in your front yard? My guess is that it's better to have it done in a controlled manner, rather than a free for all. I know it's just more of our money being spent, but if I can walk through a park, or get to the bathrooms at our marina without stepping in goose shit, then it's money well spent.
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