Posted on 05/10/2005 3:58:12 PM PDT by Pikamax
Enraged Attleboro worker: Make way, goslings, or else! By Franci Richardson Sunday, May 8, 2005 - Updated: May 9, 2005 01:35 AM EST
A mother goose leading five of her fluffy little yellow goslings around an Attleboro business property will wake up on Mother's Day childless, as a Columbia University graduate stomped her babies to death.
``In several cases, the intestines were ripped from their small bodies,'' said Attleboro police Lt. Barry Brewer. ``In one case, the eyes were forced from the goslings' small head and those too were stomped. One of the goslings killed in the parking lot was squashed almost flat.''
John Sanders, 33, of North Kingstown, R.I., a programming consultant working at Texas Instruments, told police about 4 p.m. yesterday that he became angry after falling on a path outdoors after the adult goose hissed at him.
A witness told officers he saw Sanders grab and kick the goose across a 30-yard parking lot. Police determined he chased the goslings across a grassy area, where he killed three, and then stomped two others to death on either side of the lot.
``These are the fluffy little yellow things that Boston police will stop traffic for,'' Brewer said. ``They ain't hurting nobody.''
The mother goose was taken to an animal shelter for treatment.
Sanders, who has no criminal record, remained in jail last night on $600 bail. He will be arraigned in court tomorrow.
``I wish he hadn't done that,'' said Sanders' father, Bill, last night. ``He's a nice guy and it doesn't seem like something he would do. It sounds bizarre.''
A Texas Instruments manager visited Sanders, who has an MBA from Columbia University, in jail last night and fired him, Brewer said.
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Anyone want to bet that he's a member of "the party of tolerance and diversity?"
thats pretty sick. serves the bastard right.
That's a real eye-roller of a paragraph.
He sounds like a real goober, if a hissing goose makes him fall down.
Now, when your boss makes a jail visit to fire you, that is probably an indication of a problem.
Yup. "We don't even want you anywhere near the building any more, so we're going to visit you in jail to fire you."
Oddly enough, they are still employed.
I hope this guy didn't work the Help Desk.
Being fired and sent to jail is the very least this scumbag deserves.
There is absolutely no excuse for this kind of behavior.
Actually, if he did that might explain the outburst. Eight hours a day on the phone with the average computer user is enough to make anyone turn violent :-O
I'd fire him too. I wouldn't want someone prone to flipping out like a lunatic in my workplace. While adult Canada geese can be very nasty, there is no excuse for attacking the goslings.
Stomping the goslings is pretty low but a lot of us around here are fed up with these canada geese! A few less isn't going to hurt anything. And stopping traffic for them!!! Geez! They poop all over the parking lots, chase employees and visitors, all because they are 'protected'. they are so protected they won't migrate anymore.
Maybe he slipped on goose poop.
"Now, when your boss makes a jail visit to fire you, that is probably an indication of a problem."
It really don't get much worse than that.
Sure I'll bet :D
Makes me glad I just sprung $150 on a TI calculator.
Sweet mother of pearl!
What the heck would make anyone twig out like this on baby geese, for pity's sake!?
I know that geese can be aggressive and annoying, but it sounds like he actually tracked down the goslings across the parking lot and went after them deliverately.
Couple of days in a cell with Bubba serves this sicko right.
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