[BossyRoofer]

Darn we got goosed again!

[rodeocowboy]

They should make a year-round open season on them. Trucking geese to other states?! Now I know why Gov. Engler cuts these bastard's (DNR) budgets all of the time.

By the way, for those who don't live near the Great Lakes and have never seen a goose turd; they are about the size of a cat's turd. And they $hit as much, or more, as sea gulls.

[varon]

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources last week trucked the last of 4,100 of the honking birds to a conservation area 550 miles away, near Chelsea, Iowa.

One would think catching a wild goose is more difficult than an illegal immigrant. So why aren't we reading INS last week trucked 4,000 illegals to Mexico? Is it because the illegals honk louder and the INS doesn't want to put up with the noise? ;-)

[petuniasevan]

I live by water. Canada geese come into my yard, leave their calling cards, and uproot all my plants. I had to enclose the vegetable garden with chicken wire.

My town enacted a "no feed" law a couple of years ago to deal with the goose, duck, and gull hordes. It helps but a season on these pests would help more.

[Don Joe]

UFB, what a waste! I'd gladly take a hundred or so. Look what I have to pay for geese: http://www.mcmurrayhatchery.co m/detail.asp?SID=728137&SH D=23&ProductID=625

If you've never eaten a goose egg you're really missing out (presuming you like eggs).

[mitchbert]

Here in Toronto a couple of years ago there was a brief discussion regarding using them as homeless food. They may look nice on postcards or from a distance, but in reality they are aggressive, filthy winged vermin with generally bad attitudes. You don't ever want to let your kid approach one to try and pet it.

Up here some don't migrate and hang out in a park on the east side of the city. When its really cold they go dormant at night and it looks like there's a field of dead geese when you drive past in the morning. Lovely. Then the sun comes out and they all get up and gaggle off. Wonderful creatures.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

Hmmmm....I wonder if this means we can truck thousands of blind, piss-poor driving snow birds back to Michigan from Florida when theay arrive here on an annual basis????

[quietolong]

Won’t they just fly back to were they were taken from ?