Almost no geese left to kill...

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/26/fewer-canada-geese-so-fewer-are-killed/

The slaughtered geese last year were slaughtered, processed, and sent to a food bank...

Yeah.... so?

I read the paper. Lotta geese... more then anyone needs. They're a problem. So we kill them.

What's the big deal?

If the food banks become a political force and really like the geese, will we have to raise or import geese for them?

I hate those geese. I try to feed the ducks and they basically come over and rape me. Fuck geese.

Lotta morons...more than anyone needs. They're a problem, so....

This is probably the first time I've ever found myself agreeing wholeheartedly with Danny Hellman!

And that's in spite of the fact that I have no great love for geese.

We have already put morons in just about every conceivable profession and community.

I think we have done enough with them.

Dance Rehearsal, arms aggressively akimbo, assumes I am wringing my hands in disdain. I was impressed at how quickly the kill program worked, and intrigued that they were thoughtful enough to make food out of it. Where can I get my hands on some Prospect Park Pate?

Dude, becoming poor enough to receive duck from the food bank isn't a good trade off.

If geese are done could we please get to work on the raccoon genocide? Those little bastards have really taken hold in the park.

If geese are done could we please get to work on the raccoon genocide? Those little bastards have really taken hold in the park.

If geese are done could we please get to work on the raccoon genocide? Those little bastards have really taken hold in the park.

How's this: we pave the park over with concrete and place an automated, motion sensing gun turret in the middle of it, to pick off any animal stupid enough to wander into the kill zone?

We had that in the South Bronx for a long time.

Now we have fast food and pawn shops.

oneoneone said:

If geese are done could we please get to work on the raccoon genocide? Those little bastards have really taken hold in the park.

In all my years of living in Brooklyn, I never saw so much as one raccoon there. Do you have any photos or articles which show or discuss any overpopulation of those beasties?

I did see a dead raccoon on the Belt Pkwy in Queens the other day. But I think the ones in Brooklyn are just large rats with their winter coats.

Raccoons are nocturnal, so take a nighttime walk near where Center Drive meets East Lake Drive. There's usually a few popping in and out of the sewer grate.

Danny Hellman said:

How's this: we pave the park over with concrete

They're working on it—there's a big new parking lot going in on Breeze Hill.

CHE, perhaps you are not aware of the following:

First, there has been a huge parking lot there for ages, as a part of the decrepit old Wollman rink facility adjacent to the long-neglected and underutilized Eastern edge of the lake.

Second, the work you see going on there is to build an all new, more environmentally-friendly Lakeside Center with two new rinks (not just one overcrowded one as before) and a full-scale *restoration* of the waterfront landscaping in the area directly surrounding it to bring it back more closely to its original design and return it to more of a scenic, natural space for the public.

http://parkslope.patch.com/articles/prospect-parks-new-skating-rink-on-track-to-open-next-year#photo-8094093

But yeah, you got the big part right. The fenced perimeter for all of this does cover a significant portion of that overall area, as one might expect.

Evidently, racoons are a problem all over NYC:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5i1WTBtKqxE