> Hi Tweets,
>
> Jim Brewster writes:
>
> >Following is a clip from a story in today's Seattle Times about the "geese
> >police", officers with dogs who chase the geese (the dogs, not the officers)
> >along the waterfront. Thought it might be of interest to Tweeters:
> >
> ><< The goose problem didn't exist a few decades ago. In the 1960s, there were
> >thought to be fewer than 100 Canada geese in the Seattle area. Now, there are
> >estimated to be 5,000, and each goose produces from 1 to 3 pounds of fecal
> >material a day.
>
> Apart from the bemusing image of police officers putting their years of
> training to work at this task, the question arises: who are the people who
> introduced these damned things in the first place and why do the rest of us
> have to pay tax-dollars to clean up after their mistakes? Why is the
> introducing group or agency not stuck with the job and the costs?

I don't know that anyone *introduced* them, so much as encouraged them to
be very prolific by feeding them, no?

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