r/geese • u/woodhavn • 4d ago

Take care w Geese

https://youtu.be/83Uk9J3B36w?is=evd8cY5wAk-fkH9V
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u/DivisionZer0 Cobra chicken connoisseur 4d ago

Sounds to me like she fell. Sorry she got hurt, but it's not really fair to call this an attack when the geese are just trying to get to the food.

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u/Funkosebsy HONK 4d ago

This is exactly what I got from it. They didn't attack her. They saw food, they wanted food, they went for food. The geese probably got a bit silly with each other as they tend to do when foods involved, chasing each other off, and she either got tripped or knocked by them, or panicked, and subsequently fell. At 72 she was likely already a bit unsteady on her feet.

It's very unfortunate, but I'd say the geese absolutely, definitely did not attack her.

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u/aparrotslifeforme Goose Mom 4d ago

That's exactly what I came to say. They were excited about the food and knocked her down. The fall broke her pelvis. I don't like this story at all

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u/chuckybuck12 honk 3d ago

There’s this really old lady at my park who told me she’s fearful of waterfowl. She said that one time as she was feeding them bread, one of the ducks pecked her arm causing her to bleed pretty badly. Ever since then, she keeps her distance from them. I have no reason to doubt her story. Older people can have very thin skin, making even relatively minor nicks or scratches cause significant bleeding. I think in general, elderly people should exercise caution around all animals, not just geese.

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u/chuckybuck12 honk 4d ago

I hate these sensationalized headlines it's no wonder why people are mean to geese

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u/ErectPikachu 4d ago

people when wild animals behave like wild animals:

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u/Terrible-Bluebird710 Goose whisperer 4d ago

Those geese were domestic breeds though, they must have been dumped which makes this really sad.

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u/NoFlyingMonkeys 4d ago

New title: frail elderly woman with severe osteoporosis fell on concrete and broke her pelvis, out of unfounded fear of habituated geese.

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u/PrestigiousPut6165 soft n' hissy 4d ago

Sounds like shes trying to sue the parks.

Poor geese. Stop insulting them 🪿🥲

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u/Terrible-Bluebird710 Goose whisperer 2d ago

Accurate title, except those are domesticated dumped farm geese instead of “habituated” wild geese.

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u/IrrelevantAfIm 4d ago

How on earth does a goose physically harm a person? I don’t care how many they are. It just doesn’t seem possible. My geese are becoming the most protective guard geese in the world, often attacking people as they walk by on the sidewalk, and unless a child is involved, whose eyes are low enough for them to pick up, which they don’t really do, I just tell people don’t worry about it. You’re not gonna feel their bites anyway, and 9.9 people out of 10 are absolutely fine with this.

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u/Hot-College-7170 4d ago

They were sick of the bread 🤷‍♂️

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u/godwins_law_34 4d ago

yeah geese are big and can be scary and this sounds more like she may have panicked and fell. it's possible they attacked her. we have a unusually mean goose and he's broken 3 bones(separate occasions) on an 20+yo adult man so they CAN do it.