At the building where I work, we have a problem with Canada Geese
[Photo source: http://www.jacksonbottom.org]
They are big birds that like to nest in the middle of the parking lot. Not good for people or geese. In an effort to humanely discourage the geese from choosing this building's parking lot for nesting, the building management company has implemented a...wait for it....
Laughing yet? In my vocabulary, a goose is "pinch in the buttocks; 'he goosed the unsuspecting girl'" (source). So the first time I heard this, all I could think about was a management-sanctioned program that encourages us to pinch each other's asses. *snort*
The reality is it's a pretty cool program, that uses a fake coyote (moved strategically every day), lasers at night and a cannon at night, which all work to make the geese think that this is not a cool place to land. Much better than any other option of poisoning or hunting or...
What's wrong with having geese on the property? A few things:
- Nesting geese are very agressive, and large sections of the parking lot have to be cordoned off, and parking is limited.
- Geese and cars are a bad combination. (Last year, before the program was started, two geese were killed.)
- Geese are messy, and leave poop everywhere
*goose* Hah.
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