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Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Nice pics but too bad some car didn't come and run those vermin off the road.

I can't stand those things. Last summer I got aerial bombarded by a flock of them. I got hit in twice in my face, on my head and back.
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geese are not vermin.
 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Doggiedog
Nice pics but too bad some car didn't come and run those vermin off the road.

I can't stand those things. Last summer I got aerial bombarded by a flock of them. I got hit in twice in my face, on my head and back.
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geese are not vermin.
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You by chance don't live in the Northeast US do you?
 
Lucky Lifer -- These are GREAT pics. It really saddens me to read some of the other posts. Louis Armstrong sang "What a Wonderful World". Good thing he can't read this thread. There are some sick puppies out there! Thanks for the pics!
 
Originally posted by: randym431
You'd think in a civilized country people would show caution and give the right away to little chicks crossing a road. The area I work is in a strip of businesses with a common road running thru. There are many ponds in a park like setting along the whole area. Lots of geese stop their every year to make nests and raise chicks. They also cross the road often.
(now the sad part)
Many of these businesses have semi trucks coming and going constantly. Way too many of these sadistic sick truck drivers think its a game and fun to plow thru a group of chick crossing the road. Many don?t even try to slow or stop.
Its really sickening to see.
For years I've been trying to get the businesses to join together and put speed bumps along the common road, or at least post caution and warning signs saying "geese crossing - prepare to stop". But the truck drivers keep winning out. They don't want speed bumps, naturally.
All I can think is how sick some people are in this country, that they think running down baby chicks is fun or a game.
I'd love to have laid these drivers down on the road, when there were a baby, and waited for trucks to run them over.
When I see this, I often want to move to Japan, and live with civilized humans.
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/taps sarcasm meter


 
Originally posted by: aidanjm
Originally posted by: Lucky
Took these photos between assignment at my paper today. Spent probably 35 minutes with them. There were 4 pairs of geese and about 2 dozen babies (goslings). All in their seperate groups however. This is my favorite.
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Cute pics. 🙂

Who is Bret (your sig)? (sorry if question is rude)
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A photographer friend of mine who took a gun to his head about a year ago. I posted a thread at the time but can't find it now.

thank you for all your compliments!
 
Originally posted by: Lucky
Today I was using a Nikon D1 with an 80-200 2.8 AFS. Normally I shoot with a D70 and my results would have been better if I was, but it's in the shop right now with a blown shutter.
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I'm jealous of your camera
 
My gf has about 023840923840923840239 geese with babies at her office complex.
The males get really annoying when you try to enter or leave a building and they hiss and charge at you.
 
Originally posted by: SampSon
My gf has about 023840923840923840239 geese with babies at her office complex.
The males get really annoying when you try to enter or leave a building and they hiss and charge at you.
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Sounds like here, they are basically hissing sh!t factories that do nothing but get in your way. How I wish it was legal to hunt them here, I'd never have to buy meat again...
 
Originally posted by: randym431
When I see this, I often want to move to Japan, and live with civilized humans.
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Go fvcking ahead fvcktard. God damn I hate that bullsh!t

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Oh.. Beautiful pics OP.. And yes it does piss me off that people would hit them with clubs, or run them over.. But you know what.. Japan is NOT THAT COOL PEOPLE. If you think it is (because of your stupid fvcking anime and sh!t) then fvcking move there.
 
its our way of population control for the geese, however japan does a much better job with their strict rules on the amount of children one can have. and if you go over, they deal with it in the same manner. kill them.
 
:thumbsup: on the pics 🙂 heh wish i could shoot half that well, but not having a camera, makes it pretty damn difficult.
 
Originally posted by: freebee
I spent all last summer with a personal hatred against them. ..after they made me late by blocking the road. Most of the time the geese knew people would stop and let them cross. But not with me. I just honked the horn and stepped on the gas .....and I had to wash my car a lot last summer. Front of my car looked like a feather duster.

Another time, at the local driving range, a few geese were doing their little hissing and charging routing. So I did mine, with a sand wedge in hand. Thats one club that will never be used for golf again.
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hahaha...you are my new temporary hero. :thumbsup::beer:
 
haha, theres 2 geese and their baby stuck in the courtyard at our school! The baby cant fly out, so they are just stuck there. It looks like maintence put out some water and food for them, but they are still stuck there for awhile
 
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