FRANKSMITHSAYSNB EDITORIAL:
The Parks and Recreation Department requested the council to provide the funds that have been allocated by the approved Council Budget in order to reduce the population of geese in order to reduce the waste products within New Britain Parks effecting the heavy usage by young children for little league, soccer, and other enjoyments use of the parks.
The State Department of Envoirmental protection and the U. S. Department of Agriculture who have jointly proposed a coordinated plan of action to be undertaken by the City with a round up plan.
This action has to take place during the month of June during the geese molting season.
After debating the issue for nearly an hour long with the democrats arguing that the city has a budget short fall.
The Director did point out that the droppings are a source for the Asian flu therefore the reduction plan would help reduce this health problem to the children who slip and slide, while playing their desired sports, into the adverse product left behind in the parks by the geese. He also pointed out to the council members that the money was available in the park maintenance; account a sum of $6,000.00.
These radical democrats would like to tell you what is best for your children and you have no say in protecting your children; because they know best!
I hope that the parents will recall the democratic no vote for protecting the city's children come the next election day.
I'm sure they already have their eyes on some radical socialist plan that they would rather spend the $6,000 on.
ReplyDeleteI guess you could say the Democrats are full of crap?
ReplyDeleteLike the oil spill in the gulf you either put the boot to the throat of BP (those dastardly OIL guys) or save the geese but sicken our children.
ReplyDeleteAll for a political philosophy?
How's that hope and change working for YOU?
What is worse is that some Council members worry more about frivolous things like, how it affects their psyche.
ReplyDeleteThe geese are are health problem not an aesthetic problem.
Council members should be more concerned about the general welfare of all the citizens and not just their children/grandchildren.
Put this in the same category as feral cats and dogs.
Thank heavens for the intervention that stopped this massacre. There are non-lethal means of stopping this terrible killing, as discussed last night. Killing does not work to rid an area of excessive geese, nor does it work for feral cats. The vacuum effect will bring in more and the killing will continue. Breaking their necks is not a quick death, but prolonged and dreadful. Shooting would be more humane.
ReplyDeleteShooting might be more humane, but we all know how liberal loons feel about guns!
ReplyDeleteFrank Smith Wrote: "I hope that the parents will recall the democratic no vote for protecting the city's children come the next election day. "
ReplyDeleteI just got an email from the neighborhood group over by CCSU and people are outraged the Mayor proposed killing the birds. People will be at the NEXT meeting to PROTEST now that we know the WHOLE story.
They voted this way because the mere 6k in goose reduction expense doesn't line any of their pockets or employ any of their friends or family. You can also infer that none of their children are currently playing soccer at the Stanley Quarter Park field either.
ReplyDeleteMaybe in another couple of years Phil's children will be rolling in the sh-t. and he will see to it to clean the park up.
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ReplyDeleteMaybe in another couple of years Phil's children will be rolling in the sh-t. and he will see to it to clean the park up...
But then would't that just renew his wife's desire to move out of New Britain?
Why not catch them and let the homeless shelters feed them to the poor?
ReplyDeletejust another story the herald won't ever tell us about
ReplyDeleteI was ROFL picturing those kids rolling in the sh-t as that last post implied.
ReplyDeleteWOW, I just heard that Joe Lieberman might endorse Republican Linda McMahon!
ReplyDeleteThe NRA might be willing to use them for target practice?
ReplyDeleteThe geese over population has been a significant problem in New Britain for well over 12 years. The City has tried numerous things to discourage the geese from locating and staying here. The geese have no natural enemies and the population has now reached unhealthy levels. They are now permanent residents.
ReplyDeleteThe City has tried noise, cutouts of wolves, dogs, etc and nothing has been successful.
The ball fields and soccer fields are to be used for our kids and residents for healthy enjoyment and not for a toilet for geese. For those of us, or our children, who are in sports leagues you know the messy situation we are in.
For the simply say no crowd, please give us suggestions. The State DEP and federal government came in, evaluated our problem, reviewed what we had done in the past and came up with the only remaining solution.
People living in the park areas that have large ponds have been complaining for years about the slow death of our City ponds. This is the direct result of the nitrates left behind by the geese.
As far as we know the proposed vendor will round up some, not all, of the geese in June and transport them out of the area.
In the end it is the communities decision as to whether humans or geese will enjoy the parks.
Ald. Mark Bernacki
When my child was a pre-schooler 30 years ago, I brought him to the Stanley park pond area often...it was clean then, with an occasional duck or 2 floating on the pond. The closest we get to it now is driving up Stanley Street or the Boulevard.
ReplyDeleteI wonder of Phil Sherwood or Michael Trueworthy have any problems with their children playing on a regular basis at this sight.
Is it against the law to hunt geese?
Yes, the geese are nice to look at; yes they do eat lush, green grass, not hay. They will even snatch up the occasional unwary insect. But, they have become a nuisance, especially close to streams, ponds, lakes and other bodies of water such as our reservoirs that supply us with drinking water. These geese are not the kind usually raised for supplying livers for foix gras. The Canada geese that eat grass produce large, greenish, cigar-like turds. These turds, among other things are breeding grounds for flies and other disease carrying insects. It is reputed that some birds that come in contact with these turds may be carriers of avian flu or psittacosis. Not funny!
ReplyDeleteOne alderman who voted against ridding the city of 300 geese suggested putting them in Fairview Cemetery to eat the grass instead of purchasing a needed lawnmower to replace the years-old one that had outlived its usefulness. While that statement received a hearty laugh from other Council members, it is indicative of the kind of ignorant thinking that accompanies many decisions like this. Yes, Council members are free to vote as they wish but they also take an oath to do what is in the best interests of the General Welfare of New Britain Citizens. Sorry, but goose poop is not in the general welfare category! Get real folks, we weren't being asked to cause extinction of the Canada goose species, only to cull the population.
By the way, the euthanized geese are cleaned and given to homeless shelters to feed those people.
Sending the geese to the cemetery to eat the grass is the kind of childish suggestion you would expect from the radical zealots in the Democratic Party. I am not one bit surprised by the stupidity demonstrated by this comment. I am sure little mac his proud of his minion for this ridiculous statement.
ReplyDeleteOnce again, a story of this magnitude, and the Herald didn't see fit to cover it? And they wonder why they might be floundering?
ReplyDeleteHow many animals are euthanized every day in our pounds and animal shelters? Are these geese really that much more special? Frankly, at least with the geese the meat could be given to the homeless shelters and used as food. The health risk alone is a sufficient reason to eliminate these animals. To the anonymous post who said that others would simply come and fill the vacuum, that isn't how nature works.
ReplyDeleteThinning a population is a proven effective way to reduce numbers and discourage animals from encroaching on settled area. Case in point would be deer. Good wildlife management involves using artificial means to help control a population in the absence of natural predators.
If the DEP and the EPA recommends killing them, then what is the big issue from the liberals? Apparently Democrats care more about birds than they do about the children.
ReplyDeleteRecent research at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta confirm that Canada goose excrement is laden with potentially dangerous bacteria, some of which are resistant to bactericides.
ReplyDelete"Rapidly increasing populations of urban resident Canada geese are contaminating recreational areas with pathogenic bacteria that may pose human health risks," said Larry Clark, a research scientist at the National Wildlife Research Center in Colorado.
Fecal contamination from Canada geese is significant, including up to 94 per cent of excrement comprising forms of E. coli and salmonella microbes.
Scott Weese at the Ontario Veterinary College in Guelph confirms some microbes in Canada goose excrement are resistant to common bactericides.
Last summer, several Ontario public parks and swimming areas were closed due to soil and water contamination caused by Canada goose droppings, according to the Ministry of Natural Resources at Midhurst, Ont.
Studies are underway to assess the ability of Canada geese to transmit dangerous diseases, by means of droppings, to humans and livestock, and to contaminate crops and turf.
The Centers for Disease Control confirms that Canada goose droppings contain at least 140 different kinds of bacteria, some of which pose a risk to human health.