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I thought that this was going to be a thread about "Top Gun" but this is even more disturbing.

I am glad to see that some people wouldn't brush this subject off. In comparison to all the other wrongs commited in the world today this seems minor. Yet, It still bugs me.... there were jerks that used to do that sort of shit to the neighborhood where i grew up. I hope they get caught....by someone

There's colleges in Oklahoma?

Seriously, though, malicious harm and cruelty to animals is really sick. I hope they get caught, too.

Leave the geese alone!

No answer for geese deaths

Investigators are looking at possible poisonings

CRYSTAL BOLNER
Statesman Journal

April 15, 2005

Investigators with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are studying whether geese found dead in and around Keizer earlier this year were poisoned.

Federal authorities took over the investigation about one month ago after the state Department of Fish and Wildlife was unable to determine the source of what killed about 150 cackling Canada geese at a private pond off Wheatland Road.

The birds were found dead in February at a pond owned by Morse Bros. rock products. Water tests from the pond determined that it was not the cause of birds' deaths.

Joan Jewitt, a spokeswoman for the federal agency, said that investigators are looking at possible connections to several other geese deaths in the Mid-Willamette Valley. Those deaths included birds found at the William L. Finley National Wildlife Refuge near Corvallis, Baskett Slough National Wildlife Refuge near Dallas and Staats Lake in Keizer.

Only cackling Canada geese, a small subspecies of Canada geese, have been affected in each of these cases. The birds are either found floating dead in the water or lying on their stomachs on dry ground with wings flared out. Before dying, many seemed to suffer convulsions, witnesses have said.

Tests on bird carcasses at a federal laboratory in Madison, Wis., the National Wildlife Health Center, have ruled out natural causes and all possible diseases, such as avian influenza or West Nile virus, Jewitt said.

Investigators now are looking at unnatural causes, such as poison, she said. The dead birds were sent last week to laboratories in Michigan for toxicology tests, she said.

Wtf is the matter with people?

i get attacked by geese on a monthly basis, and although i don't appreciate it, i use the golden rule. it doesn't fail.

yes, there is. we makes us some smart'uns here. though we don't go for none o' that fancy librul edumacation. we just dehead them burds.

This kind of stuff pisses me off. There are some sick bastard(s) slicing the food sacks off the beaks of pelicans here in CA.