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I can confirm canadian geese are jerks; especially while nesting they bite. Really hard. When I was at UW we wanted to start a kill the geese club, but the st

I can confirm canadian geese are jerks; especially while nesting they bite. Really hard. When I was at UW we wanted to start a kill the geese club, but the student union doesn't allow clubs focused on violence. Turns out there is something worse than ornery birds on the way to class. With just some notebooks you can just run away. I golf a lot and having to turn your back on some geese a few meters away to take a shot is terrifying. I was bitten by a goose as a kid and don't want to go through it again.

pavel_lishin 10y ago
A Gøøse once bit my sister
- gnipgnip 10y ago
  You folk moved from Sweden ?
  - sampo 10y ago
    (The letter ø doesn't actually exist in Swedish. Swedish uses ö, Danish and Norvegian use ø.)
    - soundwave106 10y ago
      The "Swedish" in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail opening credits, however, curiously enough uses ø. (As well as another character that also is not a Swedish character, ë). Accuracy is not always completely necessary in comedy. :)
AdamSC1 10y ago
A lot of UW's international students also don't realize that Canada Geese are protected species here. It's a crime to harm them in any fashion. I'm sure as a UW student you saw the days when cars would stop on Columbia (a major road) because Geese were crossing by the dozens.
- theluketaylor 10y ago
  There's an open hunting season for Canada Geese. In southern ontario it's most days between September 8 through Dec 28 except for Sundays, so it's not always a crime to harm them. Not an international student and the club idea was more a joke than anything (though once we were told we weren't allowed it became more of a passion)
  - mikeash 10y ago
    I assume using projectile weapons in the city would be frowned upon, but would it be legal to capture/kill them by other means during that period?
    - wavefunction 10y ago
      North American hunting laws generally frown on snaring or trapping unless you specifically are licensed for that. Too much opportunity for cruelty, even if inadvertent.
  - ska 10y ago
    That probably doesn't help you in the case of running them over on a city street.
gaius 10y ago
I can confirm canadian geese are jerks; especially while nesting they bite. Really hard. To be fair, it's the humans that have encroached on the geese's territory. Of course they will defend themselves, it's only natural.

pavel_lishin 10y ago

A Gøøse once bit my sister

gnipgnip 10y ago
You folk moved from Sweden ?
- sampo 10y ago
  (The letter ø doesn't actually exist in Swedish. Swedish uses ö, Danish and Norvegian use ø.)
  - soundwave106 10y ago
    The "Swedish" in the Monty Python and the Holy Grail opening credits, however, curiously enough uses ø. (As well as another character that also is not a Swedish character, ë). Accuracy is not always completely necessary in comedy. :)

AdamSC1 10y ago

A lot of UW's international students also don't realize that Canada Geese are protected species here. It's a crime to harm them in any fashion. I'm sure as a UW student you saw the days when cars would stop on Columbia (a major road) because Geese were crossing by the dozens.

theluketaylor 10y ago
There's an open hunting season for Canada Geese. In southern ontario it's most days between September 8 through Dec 28 except for Sundays, so it's not always a crime to harm them. Not an international student and the club idea was more a joke than anything (though once we were told we weren't allowed it became more of a passion)
- mikeash 10y ago
  I assume using projectile weapons in the city would be frowned upon, but would it be legal to capture/kill them by other means during that period?
  - wavefunction 10y ago
    North American hunting laws generally frown on snaring or trapping unless you specifically are licensed for that. Too much opportunity for cruelty, even if inadvertent.
- ska 10y ago
  That probably doesn't help you in the case of running them over on a city street.

gaius 10y ago

I can confirm canadian geese are jerks; especially while nesting they bite. Really hard. To be fair, it's the humans that have encroached on the geese's territory. Of course they will defend themselves, it's only natural.