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[–] 13 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

When I was a child, we had chickens. Once, when I was five or six, we had a rooster who would chase me out of the yard when I went outside to play. Seeing this, my father held me over the chicken pen as I kicked at the rooster with my little cowboy boots, but the rooster didn't learn.

So he equipped me as a knight, and sent me with a broomhandle sword, a winter coat, and safety glasses to do battle. I fought him from the lowest dip to the highest hill, the Rooster of Cruelty, until I at last I threw down my enemy and smote his ruin upon the hillside.

Never again did he trouble me, and never again shall I let poultry tyrannize me! Ever again shall I ride to war against the avian, fair or fowl; thus is my vow.

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  • [–] 2 points 20 minutes ago

    My grandad had a rooster that always used to attack me when I was a child. One day, Grandad saw him chasing me, grabbed it, put it on the chopping block and chopped off its head. Then he threw it on the floor.

    It got up and ran towards me again. Just before it reached me, he finally collapsed.

    I still think about it quite often.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Genuinely can't tell which one is supposed to be the goose in this situation

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  • [–] 22 points 4 hours ago

    HONK 👁️🫦👁️

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  • [–] 8 points 4 hours ago (1 child)

    Why are you abusing the local wildlife?

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  • [–] 41 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    Who the hell let a goose get an Infinity gauntlet?!

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  • [–] 5 points 5 hours ago

    Fight!

    Volume warning

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  • [+] -10 points 6 hours ago (8 children)

    Spoken like someone who didn’t grow up around geese. Those fuckers can break a human leg bone or arm bone with their wing. Not even remotely kidding. They’re fear by most animals for good reason.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago

    They're feared by most animals because most animals (humans included) aren't willing to risk a fight unless they need to, while geese have a solid intimidation game, and make to believe that they're big and strong and will fight you.

    A 5 kg dog can also scare off plenty of people. That doesn't mean an average grown person can't punt it across the yard if push comes to shove. Plenty of videos out there show what happens when one of these animals actually goes after someone's kid... the kid usually ends up fine to put it that way.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Those fuckers can break a human leg bone or arm bone with their wing

    That's an urban myth about swans.

    In reality, the bones of both swans and geese are hollow like straw and about as likely to break human bones.

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    No realli! She was Karving her initials on the g00se with the sharpened end of an interspace t00thbrush given by Svenge - her brother-in-law - an Oslo dentist and star of many Norwegian m0vies: “The H0t Hands of an Oslo Dentist”, “Fillings of Passion”, “The Huge M0lars of Horst Nordfink”.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    Weak ass bones if a 10 lb bird breaks em.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

    From this popsci article: "Bird wings may not seem all that threatening. After all, like most other birds that fly, the bones in goose wings are hollow. But because geese can weigh up to 25 pounds, the muscles in those wings are incredibly strong. They have to be to lift such a heavy bird into the air and carry it hundreds of miles at a time during migration.

    So you really don’t want to be pummeled by those wings—they can quickly knock down a full-grown adult and cause scrapes, stitches, even broken bones. All of these injuries have been reported after goose assaults."

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  • [–] 8 points 2 hours ago

    knock down a full-grown adult and cause scrapes, stitches, even broken bones

    Bolded the important parts.

    Falling over for any reason can cause scrapes, stitches, even broken bones, regardless of the instigating factor.

    An adult weighing three times as much of a goose doesn't fall over because the goose is strong. They fall over because of being startled into losing their balance, which is a feat a sparrow or a mouse could also accomplish.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 hours ago (1 child)

    You’re both partially correct, the young, elderly and smaller individuals can get a broken bone from a goose.

    That said those flappy fucks can catch hands

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  • [–] 3 points 2 hours ago (1 child)

    the young, elderly and smaller individuals can get a broken bone from a goose being startled and falling over

    That's the real cause here.

    If you stand your ground and show that fucker who outweighs the other 3 to 1 or more and doesn't have hollow bones, it won't bowl you over.

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