Brian Comer, a 64-year-old white man, was accused of illegally hunting geese at a golf course on the day Trump amplified racist lies about Haitian immigrants in the city.

  • garretble@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    The thing that actually needs to happen here is make hunting geese legal.

    They are trash birds. And there are too many of them.

    • Peppycito@sh.itjust.works
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      3 hours ago

      First Nations eat them birds. I’ve heard they’re fine eating. Of course, it depends where you hunt them. I met a guy who said they’d string a net over a beach at dawn or dusk during migration. He spoke highly of the event.

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          Sounds potentially messy if we don’t scale it down. Would feat the purpose for me. The actual geese I am fine with, it’s the insane amount of geese dumpage that I do not approve of.

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      Canada Geese are protected by the migratory birds act between Canada, US and Mexico. The only thing communities can legally do is take the eggs so they don’t hatch.

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        52 minutes ago

        Well I wish they’d migrate once in a while, because they’re around here all year. They’re also mean if you happen to walk by one and they enjoy blocking traffic.

        I fucking hate geese.

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          Oh, I agree. I have far too many memories of being chased around parks as a child in Regina by them. I’m not saying they are wonderful creatures, rather that their legal protections limit what we can actually do about them.

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        And at this point, that act should be amended. The Geese are fine. There’s no reason to protect them now.

        • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          It has more to do with the fact that they are migratory birds. The egg thing is a carve out specifically for them due to their shittiness and that’s literal.