Besides people panicking and hurting themselves, the only real risk a goose actually poses to an adult is if they get a cut. Those things are riddled with bacteria. Disinfect the cut and you’re fine.
Feeding the geese at the pond just outside the school cafeteria was one of the few offenses I actually agreed with being as seriously punishable as it was. Those things would occasionally injure students when they thought they were gonna get more food out of it.
Emus will steal your lunch, they’re not violent. The emu war would better be termed the failed emu massacre (the soldiers had trouble hitting them with machine guns as they are mostly feathers)
If you want an Aussie bird to be afraid of cassowaries have killed people. Drunk people, but I think that’s only because only drunk people think it might be a good idea to fuck with the dinosaurs. A cassowary would likely win against a sober person too
You don’t fuck around with geese. This is a very credible defence.
Yup. They have no fear and will fuck you up. Swans too.
They actually generally don’t fuck people up themselves, most goose or swan related injuries are due to people panicking and hurting themselves.
At the end of the day, they’re still birds - they have hollow bones and will come out worse from any serious confrontation with an adult human.
Finally someone with actual first hand goose fighting experience.
Yes, but also its illegal to kill a goose.
And I’m pretty sure someone told the geese.
Besides people panicking and hurting themselves, the only real risk a goose actually poses to an adult is if they get a cut. Those things are riddled with bacteria. Disinfect the cut and you’re fine.
Swans are terrifyingly big too. They’re obviously scary like a tank. Geese seem small and harmless, like an IED.
Swans: can break a man’s arm or blow up a man’s house.
Why do you think the US failed to weaponise them and only got so far as Pigeons.
Feeding the geese at the pond just outside the school cafeteria was one of the few offenses I actually agreed with being as seriously punishable as it was. Those things would occasionally injure students when they thought they were gonna get more food out of it.
And emus
Emus will steal your lunch, they’re not violent. The emu war would better be termed the failed emu massacre (the soldiers had trouble hitting them with machine guns as they are mostly feathers)
If you want an Aussie bird to be afraid of cassowaries have killed people. Drunk people, but I think that’s only because only drunk people think it might be a good idea to fuck with the dinosaurs. A cassowary would likely win against a sober person too
You just triggered the aussies’ PTSD
That’s the entire reason they invented the Air Force, to level the playing field but unfortunately we are still losing:
“240 goose–aircraft collisions in the United States each year.”