{"id":4330,"date":"2009-01-17T10:24:42","date_gmt":"2009-01-17T15:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2009-01-17T10:24:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-17T15:24:42","slug":"canada_and_geese_two_great_targets_in_one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/canada_and_geese_two_great_targets_in_one.html","title":{"rendered":"Canada And Geese: Two Great Targets In One"},"content":{"rendered":"

And now that Canadian Geese have attracted the attention of the Post editorial board<\/a>, it’s a bad time to be one:<\/p>\n

It’s time to kill the geese.<\/p>\n

It’s especially time to kill those geese most likely to wreck another jet airliner, much as a gaggle of Canada geese seems to have brought down US Airways Flight 1549 Thursday.<\/p>\n

This time, all 155 passengers and crew were lifted from the icy Hudson River — an extraordinarily exceptional outcome.<\/p>\n

Next time? Who knows.<\/p>\n

Canada geese are a serious threat to human life and property — not to mention a major pain to pedestrians, motorists and folks who just like to spread a picnic blanket in a park.<\/p>\n

Obviously, the official cause of the crash won’t be declared for a while. But nobody doubts that it was what pilots call a “bird strike” — just as nobody doubts that the guilty birds were Canada geese.<\/p>\n

That’s because Canada geese are everywhere — and they’re out of control.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Beyond airport vicinities, it’s even harder to tamper with geese (let alone kill them) — even as they coat parks and playgrounds everywhere in layers of disgusting goose poop.<\/p>\n

This is unsightly, unsanitary — and totally unacceptable.<\/p>\n

Something needs to be done.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

And now that Canadian Geese have attracted the attention of the Post editorial board, it’s a bad time to be one: It’s time to kill the geese. It’s especially time to kill those geese most likely to wreck another jet airliner, much as a gaggle of Canada geese seems to have brought down US Airways […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,36,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new_york_post","category-the_natural_world","category-well_what_did_you_expect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4331,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}