Attack goose!

(Via Bag of Nothing)

• [xzzy]

  He/she is just trying to protect his/her nest!

  In areas that get a lot of geese in the spring there’s companies that specialize in relocating or marking nests to try and limit the confrontations between humans and goose. 

  I once had one attack my car because I parked too close to a nest. Once I backed out and moved to another spot everything was cool.

  • [Ben Harris]

    “…human and goose.”

    or

    “…humans and geese.”

    Also, you guys must have a special breed of venom-enhanced geese because our geese are placid.

• [Ramone]

  Wow, they take that “tobacco free campus” shit seriously.

• [PlutoniumX]

  Duck, Duck…

• [methodius]

  Geese really hate the improper use of punctuation.

  • [Ramone]

    Or lack thereof.

• [joeposts]

  But he looks so friendly! 

  • [tyger11]

     He looks delicious!

• [thunderhammer]

  This is why we have liberal concealed firearm laws.

• [t3kna2007]

  GOOOOOAAAAAAL!

  Just kidding.  Actually, I had a few run-ins while out jogging in an office park.  The geese had adopted the lake as their own space.  There were several and very big, but fortunately they didn’t all charge, just two or three of the dominant ones.  I eventually changed my route.

• [Robert Jonson]

  Don’t mess with attack geese, man. The distillery around here actually uses trained attack geese on the premises to keep people out.

• [Brian Donohue]

  Among my favorite critters of all. Something about the Tao symbol on their necks, maybe. A couple years back here in Brooklyn the gov’t. killed a few hundred of them on the Capt. Sullenberger premise — naturally, it being the gov’t they killed mostly the wrong kind (non-migratory). It’s one of those stories with a kind of gruesome humor to it (the scene of the protest by Park Slopers was especially bizarre) — I wrote some of it down at the old and now-dead blog: 
  http://briandonohue.org/geese.html

• [vonbobo]

  great pic!

• [semiotix]

  I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass… and I’m physically incapable of chewing bubble gum.

• [brillow]

  These geese are regarded as pests by most management agencies.  They should be treated as such.  Would you rearrange your life to spare a rat’s nest?

• [robcat2075]

  Note to Boing Boing… someone should fix your Facebook “Share” button to use the image that is the object of the post rather than the Boing Boing logo because i doubt many people will click through upon seeing a red bb.

• [Mark Dow]

  Haiku version, appropriate for any door:

  you should use the other door
  the goose will attack
  if you go out through this door

  • [ookluh]

    I know my haiku.
    Syllables seventeen? Yes!
    Nineteen is right out!

    • [Mark Dow]

      Fourth grade was a blur
      must not have paid attention
      humiliation

    • [Wreckrob8]

      Haiku have seventeen morae (on) not seventeen syllables. A mora is a measure of syllable length/stress.

  • [Vaughn Marlowe]

     last line: if you go out here

    there…fixed

• [Thorzdad]

  I used to work in an office where a group of Canadian Geese decided to camp at the employee entrance. Mean, mean, aggressive animals, those geese. You really had to be careful using that door. And the poop was everywhere.

  Sign seriously needs a period.

  • [Dan Hibiki]

    I’ve seen one of those geese successfully beat the crap out of a full grown doberman.

    Do not fuck with Canadian Geese.

• [danjadave]

  Obligatory goose attack video 
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKyu0NlnnWQ

  • [Mantissa128]

    I second that. Do not mess with geese.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OStX_wrWGg

• [Shibi_SF]

  I lived on a lake with large numbers of these beasts.  They seemed to tolerate seeing us residents (they were often hand-fed), but we all had to do these funny bolts between safety zones when they had their nests in our bushes!   (Their beaks do hurt when they bite… it’s more than just a mean-pinch.)  Also, they lay some AWFUL turds.

• [Nathan Montgomery]

  “Use the other door the goose will attack if you use this door,”
  This  be a great garden path sentence, similar to”The old man the boat,” 
  You think the subject is “The other door,” but it (the sentence) misleads you, the subject is actually “The other door (which) the goose will attack if you use this door,”

  So the sentence can be better understood to be telling you to use the other door, because the goose will attack the other door if you use the door in front of you. 

• [Scott Bartlett]

  That’s way more persuasive than “alarm will sound”!

• [Nagurski]

  That goose is pure Gary Larson.

• [Won Word]

  Door The Goose would look even more menacing if she had the red eye.

  Man, I wish Door The Goose lived where I work. All we have are a flock of ducks, so walking to the car isn’t very exciting. It is like being accosted by a flock of homeless beggers, only instead of asking for change, they want bread (crumbs).

• [smallteam]

  Call Maggie: “When Geese Attack!”  “Goose Attacks Kill More People Than Cows”

  Duck, duck goose.

• [Marvin]

  http://www.stream.com/locations/north-america/beaverton.aspx which provides support for a major American game console system.