• gnutrino@programming.devEnglish
        291·
        6 days ago

        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.

        • Omega_Jimes@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          6 days ago

          Yes, but also its illegal to kill a goose.

          And I’m pretty sure someone told the geese.

        • InputZero@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          6 days ago

          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.

      • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        20·
        6 days ago

        Swans are terrifyingly big too. They’re obviously scary like a tank. Geese seem small and harmless, like an IED.

    • ethaver@kbin.earth
      14·
      6 days ago

      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.

      • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        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

  • YellaLeber@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    42·
    6 days ago

    Typical air force, always over briefing things, a Naruto run should be more than enough to deter any geese…

  • MonkeyTown@midwest.socialEnglish
    23·
    6 days ago

    Meanwhile I put my hands in my sweatshirt pockets (zip-up sweatshirt, not pull-over) and flap them like wings while slow-running at them, yelling and stomping each step. Basically do what they do, but I’m bigger.

    I look insane, but they fuck right off, since it’s all signals they understand.

    I used to work at a place that had a sitting pond right against the building with walkways across it and stuff and that was the only way out to the back parking lot… there were always geese… I got fed up and tried that once when I was having a bad day, and it both worked and made me feel a ton better.

  • laranis@lemmy.zipEnglish
    20·
    6 days ago

    The “Unclassified” in the corner is the icing on the cake. Like, either someone had to make the decision on the classification level appropriate for goose confrontations or somewhere there exists a more detailed, unredacted version that has national security implications.

    • kersploosh@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      10·
      6 days ago

      somewhere there exists a more detailed, unredacted version that has national security implications.

      I am convinced this is the case. I don’t need evidence.

  • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    14·
    6 days ago

    I love that the official advice, from the US Air Force to their brave airmen and women, is to retreat from the angry bird.

    • snooggums@piefed.worldEnglish
      9·
      6 days ago

      Don’t run though, that leads to getting routed!

      Seriously though, the advice given is solid and exactly how I behave around geese and have never had an incident.