Author Topic: We Must Keep the Foreigners OUT! (Read 6192 times)

Brian Massey · « **on:** February 03, 2012, 06:27:30 PM »

I arrived at our flying field today only to find it had been "occupied" last night by a bunch of DANG Canadians! There was so much goose poop you could hardly roll out your lines. Watching someone go to their handle was like watching someone tiptoe through a mine field. Trust me when I say Goose Poop, is not your everyday bird poop.

Brian

Tim Wescott · « **Reply #1 on:** February 03, 2012, 06:31:37 PM »

Gee, Brian -- thanks for the picture.

RDJeff · « **Reply #2 on:** February 03, 2012, 06:39:23 PM »

We have the same problem at our R/C field.

They make a big mess all over Anchorage too!

Howard Rush · « **Reply #3 on:** February 03, 2012, 06:49:32 PM »

Quote from: Brian Massey on February 03, 2012, 06:27:30 PM

I arrived at our flying field today only to find it had been "occupied" last night by a bunch of DANG Canadians! There was so much goose poop you could hardly roll out your lines. Watching someone go to their handle was like watching someone tiptoe through a mine field. Trust me when I say Goose Poop, is not your everyday bird poop.

They fly through the circle in formation oblivious of airplanes, too. I have taken this up with Chris Cox.

Jim Thomerson · « **Reply #4 on:** February 03, 2012, 07:02:08 PM »

In the St Louis area, geese live there year round. I used to fly by a lake. They would come in over the lake and land near the circle, but we never had a problem with them. I've also seen them in the RC area at Buder Park. I was not really aware of goose poop until I visited Kew Gardens in England.

Larry Wong · « **Reply #5 on:** February 03, 2012, 07:06:52 PM »

We also get them in Alameda Ca. But some have learn to fly around the field on there way to the golf course across the street and yes the droppings look like a dog left them....

Paul Taylor · « **Reply #6 on:** February 03, 2012, 08:17:30 PM »

I once played golf with my brother in law and when we chipped up on the green you could not pick out your ball at first. There was goose gander all over the green, and some with white spots in them. Then you had to clear a path to put.

Randy Powell · « **Reply #7 on:** February 03, 2012, 08:21:55 PM »

PJ,

That would be American Standard.

Brian Massey · « **Reply #8 on:** February 03, 2012, 10:52:31 PM »

Quote from: Tim Wescott on February 03, 2012, 06:31:37 PM

Gee, Brian -- thanks for the picture.

If you like I'll email you the hi-res version!

Brian

Randy Cuberly · « **Reply #9 on:** February 03, 2012, 11:13:15 PM »

I lived and flew in Ft. Collins Colorado through the 70's. Ft collins was a Canadian Goose Santuary. The geese owned the place. A gander that thought we had invaded his space one day took on a flight streak in the pits and totally destroyed it as well as attacking the owner when he tried to protect the airplane. Don't laugh, a 30 lb bird can inflict serious damage on a person or a plane. The plane was totally destroyed and the person needed 14 stitches on his right arm.
I worked at Woodward Govenor Company at the time and the company had a lake outside the Cafeteria that the geese used as a nursery. Everyone there knew not to approach the little ones or suffer the wrath of Papa. As protected birds they literally did own the place.
One article in the local paper described how one young gentleman was killed by a goose (His stupidity helped a lot of course). This young idiot climbed out on the roof of his house with a fish dip net and proceeded to snare one of the locals that used his street for a flyway leading to a local lake. Well, he caught one and proved that a 30 lb bird flying at about 50 MPH has enough kenetic energy to lift a stupid teenager completely off the roof and deposit him two stories down in the middle of the street. Might actually have been a candidate for the Darwin Award had it existed at the time. The bird was unharmed so no charges were preferred against the kid.

Randy Cuberly

Michael Massey · « **Reply #10 on:** February 03, 2012, 11:35:13 PM »

If you have to watch where you are walking in a goose "popular" area, would you be doing the "Goose Step" I have heard so much about?

John Stiles · « **Reply #11 on:** February 04, 2012, 07:16:46 AM »

Quit complainin, rake it up, drop it in the chipper/shreader and grind it up.....then spread it back out and pray for rain....your C/L area will be the prettiest green you never saw!

Chuck Feldman · « **Reply #12 on:** February 04, 2012, 07:35:21 AM »

Well that is a real shame for sure! I would be unhappy to. Being from Southern NJ I can tell you that in the 50's & 60's there where no problems with these geese. If you hunted you would never get a goose in our area you had to go to Delaware or further to MD. Now days it is all changed the geese are verywhere. They are a problem the mess they leave behind LOL is bad. What to do. well in NJ you can now kill almost unlimited geese. But there are no hunters? There used to plenty of them. Now lets move to Florida where I now live. We have huge snakes destroying the everglades. we have Lionfish (poisonous) in our rivers and shores. No one has said this yet but it is obvious. We need to go out and kill the snakes. Shoot them trap them poison the what ever. Of course the tree huggers are going to cry out. The Lionfish they are going to have round ups to get as many as they can. They are eatable so if the public decides to like them the fishermen may find a way to catch them for the market. It seems we don't have answers anymore. As for the flying fields shoot them down.

Chuck Feldman

David M Johnson · « **Reply #13 on:** February 04, 2012, 08:31:54 AM »

I heard geese kind of taste like chicken........

David Johnson

W.D. Roland · « **Reply #14 on:** February 04, 2012, 01:39:11 PM »

Quote from: Randy Powell on February 03, 2012, 08:21:55 PM

PJ,

That would be American Standard.

Expensive porcelain!

Here its the Crawfish and the mounds they make.

South east of here its Drunk Cowboys on Horses who have no problem riding out into the circle to ask questions of the pilot. This can cause the spinner on a Smoothie to penetrate the fender of a Lincoln Town car. Did not do the airplane any good.

john e. holliday · « **Reply #15 on:** February 04, 2012, 01:39:47 PM »

Depends on who is baking/roasting them. There is a difference in taste between the Canadian geese and the tame ones we raised when I was mucho younger.

Larry Cunningham · « **Reply #16 on:** February 04, 2012, 04:55:34 PM »

Quote from: David M Johnson on February 04, 2012, 08:31:54 AM

I heard geese kind of taste like chicken........

David Johnson

Not really..

L.

"Thought is action in rehearsal." -Sigmund Freud

bob branch · « **Reply #17 on:** February 04, 2012, 09:37:32 PM »

No way goose tastes like chicken! There is so much grease in a goose you could add a shot of alcohol and run a fox .35 on it!

bob branch

btw, thank Henry Ford. The damn things were all but extinct in the early 1900's. Do a DNA check... they will all relate back to the 6 he saved and raised on his estate in Dearborn, MI.

John Stiles · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2012, 04:40:04 AM »

Quote from: bob branch on February 04, 2012, 09:37:32 PM

No way goose tastes like chicken! There is so much grease in a goose you could add a shot of alcohol and run a fox .35 on it!

bob branch

X-2........you can eat'um but they taste like chit.

Larry Cunningham · « **Reply #19 on:** February 05, 2012, 06:53:47 AM »

When I was about 17, I had a sebaceous cyst under my arm which the doctor removed in his office. He added a couple of stitches, and told the nurse, "give me some of that Goose Grease". She produced a tube of thick ointment, which was dark greenish brown which the doctor added profusely over the wound. It was nasty looking, but worked well, in a few days it was virtually healed.

Now I know where Goose Grease came from, John! ;->

L.

Q. When you pat a dog on its head he will wag his tail. What will a goose do?
A. Paul Lynde: Make him bark?

Perry Rose · « **Reply #20 on:** February 05, 2012, 08:21:39 AM »

I tracked so much goose droppings into the house from the tread in my shoes that I glued a piece of rubber on the soles to make them smooth and poop proof. Then I tried walking on snow. It's still better than cleaning the tread every time I go out.

John Fitzgerald · « **Reply #21 on:** February 05, 2012, 10:59:07 AM »

Geese are a problem many places. Read about the city of North Little Rock trying to have a special hunt. The protesters stopped it, and the city is now planning to hire dogs to keep them shooed away.

Dennis Saydak · « **Reply #22 on:** February 05, 2012, 11:12:41 AM »

Now you know where the saying "loose as a goose" comes from.

dave siegler · « **Reply #23 on:** February 05, 2012, 12:03:28 PM »

what a crapy picture

phil c · « **Reply #24 on:** February 05, 2012, 03:37:51 PM »

You could try some low fencing(18-24 in high) around the circle. Two rows about 3 ft. apart. The geese like open spots where they cn keep an eye out for predators. They don't like areas surrounded by cover. Unless the circle is big enough the geese think they're safe.

John Stiles · « **Reply #25 on:** February 06, 2012, 04:00:39 AM »

Quote from: phil c on February 05, 2012, 03:37:51 PM

You could try some low fencing(18-24 in high) around the circle. Two rows about 3 ft. apart. The geese like open spots where they cn keep an eye out for predators. They don't like areas surrounded by cover. Unless the circle is big enough the geese think they're safe.

Carbide cannons on a timer are cool.

Brian Massey · « **Reply #26 on:** February 06, 2012, 09:51:03 AM »

Quote from: phil c on February 05, 2012, 03:37:51 PM

You could try some low fencing(18-24 in high) around the circle. Two rows about 3 ft. apart. The geese like open spots where they cn keep an eye out for predators. They don't like areas surrounded by cover. Unless the circle is big enough the geese think they're safe.

We kinda can't do anything; our flying field is the church's overflow parking lot, and school practice athletic field. $:-\$

Brian

John Stiles · « **Reply #27 on:** February 06, 2012, 11:19:32 AM »

Quote from: Brian Massey on February 06, 2012, 09:51:03 AM

We kinda can't do anything; our flying field is the church's overflow parking lot, and school practice athletic field. $:-\$

Brian

You might try Jesus Loves Me, alternating with Bang, Bang, Bang, Out Goes The Lights, over churches PA system loud speakers. ROFL

George · « **Reply #28 on:** February 06, 2012, 12:31:48 PM »

Quote from: John Stiles on February 05, 2012, 04:40:04 AM

X-2........you can eat'um but they taste like chit.

Now ain't that a Croc!

George