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Train conductor files lawsuit over goose attack
Charleston Daily Mail ^
| 2/22/08
| Staff Reports
Posted on 02/22/2008 6:22:27 AM PST by mountaineer1997
When a train conductor was performing an inspection, he was goosed and fell down; he sues his employer on February 4, 2008.
TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: conductor; goose; sue; wv
To: mountaineer1997
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:23:16 AM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(We've checked, and all your zeroes are OK. We're still working on your ones.)
To: Attention Surplus Disorder
A goose once bit my sister.
To: mountaineer1997
Please do not alter headlines, and please do not place stories such as this one in Breaking News.
To: mountaineer1997
Sounds like a problem with the pecking order
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:27:06 AM PST
by
tlb
To: mountaineer1997
I thought it was a different type of "goosed."
m-w.com: "goosed
One entry found.
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): goosed; goos·ing
Date: circa 1880
1 : to poke between the buttocks with an upward thrust
2 : to increase the activity, speed, power, intensity, or amount of : spur "
To: tlb
It would have been even more unseemly had his pants split.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:28:07 AM PST
by
Attention Surplus Disorder
(We've checked, and all your zeroes are OK. We're still working on your ones.)
To: mountaineer1997; patton; Gabz
beware of surprise goose attacks...
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:32:14 AM PST
by
leda
(don't forget the baby shoes)
To: In veno, veritas
Date: circa 1880
1 : to poke between the buttocks with an upward thrust This usage is now called "Morforded".
To: mountaineer1997
When I saw the title I knew I should take a gander at the story.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:35:24 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Just call me M.O.M. (Maverick Opposed to McCain.))
To: leda
Not going to touch this.................
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:46:34 AM PST
by
Gabz
(Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
To: mountaineer1997
This suit has much merit. It was truly and unsafe work environment. If there are no warning shouts of “There’s a goose on the loose!” how was the poor man expected to defned himself?
OSHA needs to work this into their training programs, STAT.
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posted on
02/22/2008 6:58:31 AM PST
by
mrs. a
(It's a short life but a merry one...)
To: In veno, veritas
Ewww! Why did you have to tell me what “to goose” means!?All of these years, I have assumed it meant to have one’s bottom pinched. I assumed the goose allusion was in the similarity of the pinch to a bite by a goose.
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posted on
02/22/2008 8:00:14 AM PST
by
Bigg Red
(Position Wanted: Experienced Republican voter looking for a party that is actually conservative.)
To: Bigg Red
I’ve heard it used in a number of ways myself. I was kinda surprised when I saw the m-w definition.
To: mountaineer1997
Why did I imagine someone attacked him with a goose?
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posted on
02/22/2008 10:30:30 AM PST
by
CzarNicky
(The problem with bad ideas is that they seemed like good ideas at the time.)
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