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Old 04-23-2009, 03:43 PM
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Default What I Saw This Morning

I am totally disgusted. We have a ton of Canada geese around here. This morning I was driving to work, and I stopped on a main road to let two geese cross the street. Two others were lurking on the side of the road, so I passed slowly. There were a bunch of cars behind me. I looked in my rear view and saw that the other two geese started to cross, and all the cars behind me stopped, except one. This guy in an SUV ran over the two geese, and kept on going!

The image that I saw through my rear view of flailing feathers and blood under that car is seared into my brain.

The guy in the SUV started driving really fast, and caught up to me. All of the drivers that saw this, including me, were pounding on our horns at him. I could not get his plate number, and he quickly turned onto another road. I wish I would have followed him, but I was so shocked that I just kept on my way, going about 10 miles per hour, having a hand conversation with the guy in the car next to me. Our hands were saying, What the Heck?

I called the cops. I was the sixth one who had called, but all they got was a partial license plate, but we all gave the same description of the car and driver, and where he was headed. A few minutes later the cops called me back to tell me that both geese were dead, and they were still looking for the driver. All day I've been wanting to throw up and cry. It was a terrible thing to see.

What kind of heartless jerk would do this? It could not have been an accident, since he would have seen at least ten of us slow down and/or stop for the first two geese, and the ones he ended up killing. Where could he have been going that was so important that he couldn't slow down for a moment?

I'm the first to admit that these geese are overpopulated around here, they are annoying, and they poop everywhere. But I would never dream of running one over! Plus they are huge birds, so this guy's SUV must be covered in blood and feathers. I hope his car was damaged.

I just had to get this out because it disgusted me so much. I wish I could turn back time and follow the jerk. All of my 100 pounds would have been beating on him. The cops said they'd call me as a witness if they found the guy, but so far no luck. Thanks for letting me vent.
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