On 6/2/2010 2:41 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> brooklyn1 wrote:
>
>>>> And when you've several hundred Canada Geese milling about, the amount
>>>> of poop as amazing.
>>>
>>> Whatever goes in one end comes out the other, and they eat a lot. A
>>> guy down the road has a nice green lawn because it is so well
>>> fertilized, but her hates walking on it because it is always covered
>>> in goose shit. The people next to us have gone to great lengths to
>>> keep geese out of their pond. They had a contractor come out and lay
>>> a sheet of garden cloth around the perimeter of the pond and then a
>>> layer of riprak <sp? (big rocks) to discourage them. The shit does a
>>> number on the water and makes it hard for other species to survive in
>>> it.
>>
>> This is absolutely ridiculous... like other species don't shit.
>
> They are big birds and they hang around in large numbers. There are lots
> of wild critters roaming around this area and I see the occasional scat,
> but where the geese hang out there is a lot of it.
>
>> I'd rather a million geese shitting out their ass than one politician
>> shitting out its mouth.
>
>
> Politicians aren't the only people who shit through their mouths. You
> could take a lesson from them.

Anybody who thinks that goose shit isn't a problem should visit the
University of Connecticut in Storrs and look for a place to sit down on
the lawn around "Mirror Lake", known to the students as "duck shit
pond". Expect to learn the origin of the term "goosed".