In case you weren’t aware, we are right in the thick of goose attack season.
Consider this a warning.
For most of the year, geese are essentially harmless.
Sure they can be a little annoying.
They waddle around, pick at the grass, give the occasional honk, just regular harmless goose stuff.
Sometimes they’re even kinda cute.
I know from experience.
But that’s aside the point.
It’s come to my attention that New Jersey town of Peapack and Gladstone is fed up with them.
Turns out their local geese’s incessant shitting has been more than just a slight annoyance.
Theres goose poop everywhere.
These toddlers and kids are running around the park, she continued.
The reality is our park is way too small to support that many geese.
Its not good for them.
Its not good for us.
Their solution: Gas The Geese.
The plan is simple.
The plan seems extremely shortsighted to me.
They seem to think eliminating 60 geese will resolve their problem.
But according to data from 2018, there are 63,485 geese living in New Jersey alone.
A week after the original geese murders, Peapack and Gladstone will be right back to where they started.
Then they’ll have to gas another 60 birds.
Unless they think the geese will learn that landing in Liberty Park means instant death…
But the death penalty can’t possibly be a deterrent for geese can it?
They literally have bird brains.
They don’t understand consequence.
I’m worried that Peapack and Gladstone will find themselves in a vicious, never-ending cycle of bird murder.
But there’s still a chance it won’t come to that.
As you may have guessed, not all Peapack and Gladstonians are on board with this idea.
Over 2,000 people have signed a petition save the geese.
People have been showing up at city council meetings to protest on the geese’s behalf.
ABC 7- Now a host of others are offering other methods to shoo them away.
Others say they already have volunteers willing to step in and help with the negative impact of the birds.
Personally, I’d take the volunteers up on that offer.
I can’t tell you what the best course of action is here.
Either that, or just learn to live with the geese.
Everybody else in the world seems to do it no problem.
I’m not sure what makes Peapack and Gladstone think they’re special.
