Tips for dealing with geese

[ayceejay]

See, what I know is that having old friends can help you overcome problems you never thought you were going to meet in this day and age. He tells me that a lions mouth (god forbid you ever meet one of them on the tow path) can accommodate a mans head and it usually goes in but doesn't come out. A goose on the other hand (or foot) has a mouth/beak ideally suited to gnash the Achilles tendon and attacks from behind. My friend is not that old but I have a suspicion that this may even have been the Greek fellas downfall in the first place.

 

[ColinJ]

Whilst a dog will menace you from a metre or so (*), and if he comes closer, probably means business, a goose will menace you from much closer - but it's all bluster - just shoo them away, or just slowly keep moving towards them and they'll back down. Basically it's the trick the Masai do when stealing prey from lions :-). Holding your nerve is tricky when the thing's beak is at bollock height and getting closer.

Tell that to Unlucky Alf!

 

[Gravity Aided]

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