Ignore the cat thing for a sec, about the picture of the guy with the geese...

[ExciteBike66]

Assuming a guy killed a few geese, what exactly is different from what hunters do every day?

I mean, ok, maybe the geese are out of season or you can't hunt in a local park, but seriously those offenses result only in tickets, not even arrest (so long as you aren't using a gun).

[yardwork]

1. Right. I thought Republicans like hunting.

Geese are game.

[brewens]

2. The guy is in street clothes. It doesn't look to me like he was capturing geese by hand. I assume you can

buy a goose like that but you don't see anyone walking down the street with one every day.

[PittBlue]

3. The Ohio Department of Wildlife said the geese had been hit by a car...

and this gentleman picked them up off of the street in Columbus, Ohio.

[ExciteBike66]

5. Wow, caught red handed doing a public service...

Commendable

[LeftInTX]

8. Thx for this..

I thought maybe they were hunted out of season. (No big deal, but you know how the GOP is)

[peggysue2]

4. Read yesterday that photo is part of the ongoing hoax

The man in the picture with the two dead geese according to the Ohio Division of Wildlife was picking up two dead geese from the road killed during a car accident in Columbus, Ohio. In other words, roadkill. Under the circumstances, the man was within the law to pick up the carcasses.

Context, something MAGA dismisses when it serves their purpose.

[subterranean]

6. So no different from what RFK Jr. did with the bear

and the whale's head, and who knows what else.

[peggysue2]

7. A wee bit less dramatic

As far as we know, the man in the picture did not pose the geese in the park as a prank or tie the geese to the roof of his car with flesh and fluids spraying the road. Of course, geese are far smaller than a whale's head.

Roadkill pickups are legal in a number of states. A law was passed in TN that made roadkill legal bc a number of mountain residents depended on the meat as a supplement to their food supply. It was one of the first pieces of legislation I read about after moving to the state some 20+ years ago. I remember thinking:: Hummmm. Where the hell am I??

[LeftInTX]

9. About a year ago, someone in my neighborhood decided that all roadkill belonged on the sidewalk!

Doubt that it was an immigrant, but one of the local "animal nuts".

Seriously, I had to step around dead squirrels and dead birds on my daily walk.

One day a freshly killed cat appeared on the sidewalk. A homeowner happened to be outside and I pointed out the dead cat to him. He disgustingly threw it away.

If someone thought the cat would be Id'd by throwing it on the sidewalk, they were mistaken.

Whoever it was must have moved away or something. I wasn't looking forward to dead possums, skunks or racoons on the sidewalks. Maybe they got disgusted when one of carcasses was a skunk or vulture?

[kerry-is-my-prez]

13. A lot of eagles, vultures other birds eat roadkill and get run over.

That may be why they take them out of the street. There’s probably a lot of other wildlife that will eat it.

[LeftInTX]

14. I don't think that was the case here

I think someone was trying to draw attention to "dead squirrels" by punishing pedestrians with their presence.

It is illegal to obstruct sidewalks and you can see from the photo placing roadkill on the sw would obstruct it.

We don't have too many vultures gathering on our streets. Vultures usually don't bother with dead squirrels.
Generally a dead dog or cat is moved to the curb to be ID'd.

Vultures are rarely hit here because the traffic is too slow and vultures quite large.
We don't have eagles.


It was just someone drawing attention to the plight of "runover" squirrels. (It was probably one of the local kooks who think they're saving the world by feeding racoons and possums...grhh...wildlife should remain wild, not spoonfed by people)

I walk at night and every night, I had to watch my step.
It occurred for several months, then stopped.

[albacore]

10. Saw the picture... that's a Canada goose.

He didn't catch that barehanded.
Most of the Park ducks and geese are feral.... released by people. No game restrictions on them.

[LeftInTX]

11. Canadian geese aren't feral. Even if they are pets and/or pests they are subject to game laws

Canada geese are protected from hunting and capture outside of designated hunting seasons in the United States by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act,[73] and in Canada under the Migratory Birds Convention Act.[74] In both countries, commercial transactions such as buying or trading are mostly prohibited and the possession, hunting, and interfering with the activity of the animals are subject to restrictions

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All native animals are subject to game laws.

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Egyptian geese are not, but generally it is against the law to shoot them in parks etc.

[albacore]

15. I was talking about the non-native ducks and geese that people dump in parks when they don't want them. nt

[LeftInTX]

19. You called it a Canada Goose......

You can probably grab non-native geese, but I don't know if it is legal to shoot non-native geese in many locations. It's illegal to shoot animals where I live unless they are a danger etc.

[albacore]

22. You said "shoot"..not me. nt

[Mariana]

23. Albacore is correct

Saw the picture... that's a Canada goose.

That refers to the roadkill geese in the picture.

Most of the Park ducks and geese are feral.

That refers to other geese, that aren't in the picture.

No one mentioned shooting except you. There are other ways to kill geese.

[Ms. Toad]

12. The goose picture wasn't from Springfield, and had nothing to do with Haitian immigrants.

It was taken in Columbus, Ohio.

The ODNR is aware of the image, and investigating because - even though hunting geese is allowed at certain times of the year in Ohio, that window does not include the date the photo was taken. One report, from a source that is not terribly reliable, suggested they were hit by a car. Given how prevalent they are, and how prone they are to wander into the street, quite a few are hit by cars.

[meadowlander]

16. My local parks cull geese because of the e coli pollution and nitrogen run-off risk to waterways from all their shit.

As long as he's not doing it in a way that could hurt someone else and there's no underlying health risk like rabies or worms from eating the goose meat, who cares?

[LeftInTX]

20. Where I live only the city can cull populations.

[ChoppinBroccoli]

17. That Is A Picture Of A COLUMBUS Man Who ISN'T HAITIAN Removing Geese Hit By A Car From The Road

[angrychair]

18. This image has already been debunked

The guy is not Haitian. Not in Springfield. Not harvesting geese.
He is a good Samaritan. He is a US citizen. He lives in Columbus, Ohio.

The Ohio Division of Wildlife told TMZ that the man was picking up the two geese that had been hit by a car in Columbus, which is about 45 minutes from Springfield

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/ohio-geese-eating-trump-claims-revealed-b2612904.html

[SoFlaBro]

21. MAGA fuckstains do that fuck assed shit every day and look down their shit covered nose at someone else.