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A mother goose leading five of her fluffy little yellow goslings around an Attleboro business property will wake up on Mother's Day childless, as a Columbia University graduate stomped her babies to death.

"In several cases, the intestines were ripped from their small bodies," said Attleboro police Lt. Barry Brewer. "In one case, the eyes were forced from the goslings' small head and those too were stomped. One of the goslings killed in the parking lot was squashed almost flat."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/thenewswire/archive/2005/05/enraged-man-stomps-5-baby.html

God, what is wrong with people these days.

 

[ge-man]

Do people actually get of on that kind of violence? What a fucking shame.

 

[miyuru]

I hope the Uni. does something, now that'd be real trouble. The fact that the university is even mentioned in this report doesn't bode well for the guy.

 

[Wired]

Things like this make me sick, and before someone says "wah wah, why do people care so much about stupid animals, think of the poor babies/whatever in [insert hellish place here]", I'd be pretty sickened if someone had stomped a couple of babies too.

 

[acoustix]

I hate it when I read shit like this. Hopefully that guy gets punished. If it were up to me he'd half to clean up goose shit all around New York for then next 10 years.

 

[Teddman]

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=82307&format=text

Enraged Attleboro worker: Make way, goslings, or else!
By Franci Richardson
Sunday, May 8, 2005 - Updated: May 9, 2005 01:35 AM EST

A mother goose leading five of her fluffy little yellow goslings around an Attleboro business property will wake up on Mother's Day childless, as a Columbia University graduate stomped her babies to death.
``In several cases, the intestines were ripped from their small bodies,'' said Attleboro police Lt. Barry Brewer. ``In one case, the eyes were forced from the goslings' small head and those too were stomped. One of the goslings killed in the parking lot was squashed almost flat.''
John Sanders, 33, of North Kingstown, R.I., a programming consultant working at Texas Instruments, told police about 4 p.m. yesterday that he became angry after falling on a path outdoors after the adult goose hissed at him.
A witness told officers he saw Sanders grab and kick the goose across a 30-yard parking lot. Police determined he chased the goslings across a grassy area, where he killed three, and then stomped two others to death on either side of the lot.
``These are the fluffy little yellow things that Boston police will stop traffic for,'' Brewer said. ``They ain't hurting nobody.''
The mother goose was taken to an animal shelter for treatment.
Sanders, who has no criminal record, remained in jail last night on $600 bail. He will be arraigned in court tomorrow.
``I wish he hadn't done that,'' said Sanders' father, Bill, last night. ``He's a nice guy and it doesn't seem like something he would do. It sounds bizarre.''
A Texas Instruments manager visited Sanders, who has an MBA from Columbia University, in jail last night and fired him, Brewer said.

That's disgusting. At least he's paying a price.

 

[ChrisReid]

Sanders, who has no criminal record, remained in jail last night on $600 bail. He will be arraigned in court tomorrow.

A Texas Instruments manager visited Sanders, who has an MBA from Columbia University, in jail last night and fired him, Brewer said.

Full article: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=82307&format=text

 

[Manics]

Lands in jail and is fired? Looks like his goose is cooked!!!

 

[xsarien]

http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=82307&format=text
That's disgusting. At least he's paying a price.

I've long been an avid supporter of harsher punishments for people who pull this kind of shit. I'm glad he got fired. No, I'm thrilled. Dipshits like this need to have a message sent to them, loud and clear.

 

[Tommie Hu$tle]

Lands in jail and is fired? Looks like his goose is cooked!!!

:lol

exactly, why waste perfectly good eatin' geese?

 

[evil solrac v3.0]

Columbia University graduate stomped her babies to death.

all you need to know right there. scumbag.

 

[RevenantKioku]

It is awful, but I'd feel worse if geese weren't one of the worst goddamned fucking animals on the planet. I hate those mother-fuckers.

 

[Fragamemnon]

Five counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act-they'll probably roll it all up to into one violation though. Maximum penalty is a $500 fine and up to six months in prison.

That being said, there are tons and tons of domesticated Canadian geese that can get quite hostile. They are used to being fed by people and when they aren't they can get pretty mean. They are difficult to remove or chase away from an area-my company has tried repeatedly to get rid of the resident geese on the campus with dogs and other techniques from experts, but they keep coming back.

 

[belgurdo]

It is awful, but I'd feel worse if geese weren't one of the worst goddamned fucking animals on the planet. I hate those mother-fuckers.

ditto. Can't stand the fucking things. Although not enough to go ballistic on a group of them after they scared me, of course

 

[xsarien]

Five counts of violating the Migratory Bird Treaty Act-they'll probably roll it all up to into one violation though. Maximum penalty is a $500 fine and up to six months in prison.

That being said, there are tons and tons of domesticated Canadian geese that can get quite hostile. They are used to being fed by people and when they aren't they can get pretty mean.

In this case, the mother goose was probably getting mean because this sorry excuse was getting too close to her kids.

 

[Teddman]

It is awful, but I'd feel worse if geese weren't one of the worst goddamned fucking animals on the planet. I hate those mother-fuckers.

Talk about how they get hostile, that'd be an entertaining direction for this thread. I've never had a run-in with an angry goose before, but I have seen them bite a dude's nards on When Animals Attack or Funniest Home Videos.

 

[Fragamemnon]

Yeah, the materal protective instinct is obvious there. I'm just pointing out that it is likely, given the surrounding environment, that the geese where there because it had become semi-dependent on people for food. They really like office parks, apparently.

There were some Canadian geese in the backyard this morning-the playful honking woke me up. Terrific way to be stirred out of bed in the morning.

 

[RevenantKioku]

Talk about how they get hostile, that'd be an entertaining direction for this thread. I've never had a run-in with an angry goose before, but I have seen them bite a dude's nards on When Animals Attack or Funniest Home Videos.

I used to be a security guard in South Jersey, and the fuckers were all over there when I was patrolling the docks in my golf-cart. Not only did the fuckers constantly shit as they walked, I'd be no where near them and they'd charge my cart or something crazy. Just start waddling their dumb asses my way squawking and being all vicious looking. Depending on which manager was on duty, I'd spend some days chasing them around in my cart. Never hit them though. Still, those mother-fuckers started it.

 

[Drinky Crow]

Geese are mean, yeah, but killing the mother goose's BABIES in retaliation is beyond atrocious. Kicking the mom goose so hard she needs hospitalization is bad enough, systematically hunting down and murdering the goslings is utterly despicable and indicates a really disturbed mentality.

 

[tedtropy]

Geese are mean, yeah, but killing the mother goose's BABIES in retaliation is beyond atrocious. Kicking the mom goose is bad enough, systematically hunting down and murdering the goslings is utterly despicable and indicates a really disturbed mentality.

Yeah, my feelings exactly. I can kind of understand kicking at a goose that's alone and running towards you, but to react this way just because the noise a mother made freaked you out a little? Christ dude, seek some maturity and emotional balance already. How would he deal with a breakup? Break into a maternity ward and start firing off some rounds?

Good luck finding work now, asshat. Maybe KFC's hiring LOLAMIRITECHICKENSTOMP.

 

[Teddman]

Kicking the mom goose so hard she needs hospitalization is bad enough, systematically hunting down and murdering the goslings is utterly despicable and indicates a really disturbed mentality.

And he didn't even stop there. Good Lord, he tortured them to death:

"In several cases, the intestines were ripped from their small bodies," said Attleboro police Lt. Barry Brewer. "In one case, the eyes were forced from the goslings' small head and those too were stomped. One of the goslings killed in the parking lot was squashed almost flat."

This guy is like the Jeffrey Dahmer of the Geese.

 

[Dsal]

People capable of violence like that are a danger to other humans as well. Whichever part of the brain everyone else has to keep anger in check is obviously not working, and it's not much of a stretch to figure out that if that part of the brain isn't working he could hurt people in a similar way too.

 

[Phoenix]

This guy needs some serious mental help and counseling or something

 

[tedtropy]

This guy needs some serious mental help and counseling or something

I say they stomp on his five favorite consoles. That'll learn 'em!

 

[Lord Error]

People capable of violence like that are a danger to other humans as well. Whichever part of the brain everyone else has to keep anger in check is obviously not working, and it's not much of a stretch to figure out that if that part of the brain isn't working he could hurt people in a similar way too.

That's the saddest (and scariest) thing, yeah. That guy must be pretty disturbed to do something so disgusting and keep doing it five times over until all the goslings were dead Shit, that's just almost unimaginable to me. Practically more disgusting and scarier than a calculated murder of a human being, considering that he did it for almost no reason at all...

 

[Ninja Scooter]

the guy should be put to death. and im not even kidding.

 

[enjoy bell woods]

I always worry about these things when I see ducklings crossing the street in my neighborhood. I wouldn't put it past some kid to purposely drive his SUV over a group.

 

[temp]

I was hoping this was a happy story like that "Dog is Man's Best Friend" thread yesterday.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

A Texas Instruments manager visited Sanders, who has an MBA from Columbia University, in jail last night and fired him, Brewer said.

sounds good to me. I have nothing more to add other than the guy's f-ed up. I can imagine the harassing phone calls he's going to get when he is released, not to mention the hate mail, midnight visitors...ah well. he deserves it. (I'm not going to do any of that but you just know people will. remember those cookie teenagers and that crazy biddie?)

 

[nitewulf]

well, he will definitely never be hired by a corporation ever again, that fucker's career is history. hallelujah.

 

[BigGreenMat]

Wow, i love how everyone jumps on shit like this. Face it. Every single one of you who acts so disgusted and self-righteous are the exact same people who can't stand to peer into their own souls and realize they would do the exact same thing or maybe worse. The only way you can try to brush off your own dirty conscious is to sneer on others such as yourself. I can just picture you all gathered around some poor woman or man during the witch hunts or the inquisition throwing rocks and jeers at people like yourself who just happened to do the wrong thing in the wrong way.

 

[temp]

Wow, i love how everyone jumps on shit like this. Face it. Every single one of you who acts so disgusted and self-righteous are the exact same people who can't stand to peer into their own souls and realize they would do the exact same thing or maybe worse. The only way you can try to brush off your own dirty conscious is to sneer on others such as yourself. I can just picture you all gathered around some poor woman or man during the witch hunts or the inquisition throwing rocks and jeers at people like yourself who just happened to do the wrong thing in the wrong way.

Thanks for the analysis.

 

[Killkernal]

Wow, i love how everyone jumps on shit like this. Face it. Every single one of you who acts so disgusted and self-righteous are the exact same people who can't stand to peer into their own souls and realize they would do the exact same thing or maybe worse. The only way you can try to brush off your own dirty conscious is to sneer on others such as yourself. I can just picture you all gathered around some poor woman or man during the witch hunts or the inquisition throwing rocks and jeers at people like yourself who just happened to do the wrong thing in the wrong way.

Mr. Sanders, I presume?

 

[Deleted member 1235]

Fuck that's funny that his boss went to the jail to fire him. +1 boss for not tolerating this kind of shit. I mean, most bosses would just wait till he got out of jail and then fire him.

Wonder if BigGreenMat used to work for Texas instruments. jerkoff.

 

[Dilbert]

Wow, i love how everyone jumps on shit like this. Face it. Every single one of you who acts so disgusted and self-righteous are the exact same people who can't stand to peer into their own souls and realize they would do the exact same thing or maybe worse. The only way you can try to brush off your own dirty conscious is to sneer on others such as yourself. I can just picture you all gathered around some poor woman or man during the witch hunts or the inquisition throwing rocks and jeers at people like yourself who just happened to do the wrong thing in the wrong way.

Do I look like Mr. Kurtz to you, bitch?

To put it more bluntly: Saying that "every single one of us" would "do the exact same thing or maybe worse" is really, really fucking insulting. I don't know whether I should ban you...or just let people have carte blanche to tell you how dumb that comment was.

 

[Pimpwerx]

There's hunting, so who cares? We're top of the food chain. If god wanted it different, he'd make giants to ocassionally go crazy and stomp us to death. I think it would be hilarious. :lol Another goose dies, and life goes on. I wish people would be more outraged at all the people that get killed by people more. Fuck the animals, they're for eating. PEACE.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

why does jinx's tag say banned? I can't keep up, thought he was a mod.

damn Pimpwerx, sure we can eat the geese if we want, doesn't mean we need to stomp out their brains and intestines cause we got scared OF A BIRD.

 

[galeninjapan]

Wow that shit is messed up. What a fucking dick-hole. I agree the guy is a bastered and needs to be punished some how, but to get kicked out of the university for this one thing. If he has a record of violence or something then OK. Maybe he could just lose all his scholorships.

 

[Lil' Dice]

What kind of a pussy hates geese? Mountain lions, or baboons i could understand, but fucking geese?

 

[Dilbert]

There's hunting, so who cares? We're top of the food chain. If god wanted it different, he'd make giants to ocassionally go crazy and stomp us to death. I think it would be hilarious. :lol Another goose dies, and life goes on. I wish people would be more outraged at all the people that get killed by people more. Fuck the animals, they're for eating. PEACE.

Did you even READ the article? No one was hungry, as far as I can tell.

 

[Drinky Crow]

Every single one of you who acts so disgusted and self-righteous are the exact same people who can't stand to peer into their own souls and realize they would do the exact same thing or maybe worse.

Nope. I've tripped and fallen because of animals countless times in my life and outside of a few hoarsely-shrieked epithets deriding the animal's parentage, I've never contemplated harming them.

Hell, I was sitting down early one morning to play PS2 in my bathrobe and our then-new kitten, hiding under the couch, leapt out and took a swipe with his little claws at something very, very tender and precious to me. I screamed like hell, and y'know what? The kitten still lived to grow old and obnoxious -- I coulda punted him through a wall like a fuzzy football, and I didn't. Why? Because I'M NOT INSANE. (Although I constantly threatened to barbecue and eat him for bein' so damn fat and lazy throughout his life; you be the judge there.)

I'd say if you can look into YOUR "soul" and find a dark similarity to the sicko in the article, you're the one with issues. The rest of the world ain't here to validate your rage.

 

[BigGreenMat]

Do I look like Mr. Kurtz to you, bitch?

To put it more bluntly: Saying that "every single one of us" would "do the exact same thing or maybe worse" is really, really fucking insulting. I don't know whether I should ban you...or just let people have carte blanche to tell you how dumb that comment was.

I am not surprised it is insulting. I would expect nothing less. If it wasn't insulting you wouldn't fit right into the group to which I was referring.

Oh and Drinky I am proud you held back on your little kitten. Good job

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

Wow, i love how everyone jumps on shit like this. Face it. Every single one of you who acts so disgusted and self-righteous are the exact same people who can't stand to peer into their own souls and realize they would do the exact same thing or maybe worse. The only way you can try to brush off your own dirty conscious is to sneer on others such as yourself. I can just picture you all gathered around some poor woman or man during the witch hunts or the inquisition throwing rocks and jeers at people like yourself who just happened to do the wrong thing in the wrong way.

I can count the number of times I've outright killed an animal for startling me on one hand. oh wait, I don't even need the hand because it's never happened.

maybe you're just trying to feel better because you've done it yourself and want to think that other people feel the same way?

EDIT: mangled that damn sentence to death. oh noes! I killed the poor defenseless sentence, I'm just like that goose-stepping bastard.

 

[Vandiger]

Wow, i love how everyone jumps on shit like this. Face it. Every single one of you who acts so disgusted and self-righteous are the exact same people who can't stand to peer into their own souls and realize they would do the exact same thing or maybe worse. The only way you can try to brush off your own dirty conscious is to sneer on others such as yourself. I can just picture you all gathered around some poor woman or man during the witch hunts or the inquisition throwing rocks and jeers at people like yourself who just happened to do the wrong thing in the wrong way.

If you read the story the guy went beyond the initial reaction of kicking the mother goose but then went out of his way to start killing baby geese. I don't think I have the deranged mentatily or hostility to actually torture animals. If you are referring to people who just skim over what is described and making a blatant assumption than yeah I guess you did make your point

 

[nitewulf]

Wow, i love how everyone jumps on shit like this. Face it. Every single one of you who acts so disgusted and self-righteous are the exact same people who can't stand to peer into their own souls and realize they would do the exact same thing or maybe worse. The only way you can try to brush off your own dirty conscious is to sneer on others such as yourself. I can just picture you all gathered around some poor woman or man during the witch hunts or the inquisition throwing rocks and jeers at people like yourself who just happened to do the wrong thing in the wrong way.

what, smash up five little geese? are you nuts.
i'd understand if he was a child, as children have no understanding of death and they are curious. they wanna cause something to see the effect.
this nutjob was obviously taking out his anger, caused by something else on the geese.
put it to you this way, you see a litter full of kittens, and the mommy cat hisses at you...so you bash it a with baseball bat, and grab and squish the kittens?
riiiiite...that's not normal at all.

 

[Pimpwerx]

Did you even READ the article? No one was hungry, as far as I can tell.

Animals die. Life goes on. Are geese going extinct? Is animal cruelty running wild? Newsworthy, this is not. Many more geese are killed by hunters. Not all die instantly, some have their necks broken by the hunting dogs. Oooh, let's bug out about that too. Top of the food chain pretty much means animal lives are worthless IMO. Yeah, that's heartless for me to say, but then, there's no animal that's gonna mess me up. I don't live on the savannah, and until ducks get smart enough to make weapons, they're not going to exact their revenge either. I don't get mad when animals die, no matter how cruel it may be. Maybe not natural selection will favor ducks that don't stand around in parking lots waiting to be stomped. :lol

Seriously, the guy is a dick, but I don't see a need to wig out about it. PEACE.

 

[Manics]

Despite my off-coloured joke previously in this thread, I do think the guy's got a screw loose. Anyone that can actually "stomp" animals to death really needs a head check. Of course, there's people out there who kill other people without batting an eyelash so there's quite a few fucked up people out there. Where does he rank? -- probably on the lower end of fucked up.

 

[Escape Goat]

If it were snakes people would be cheering this man.

 

[Drinky Crow]

Held back? It didn't even occur to me to hurt it. Yell loudly and shriek like a wounded vulture, yes. Cuss up a storm? Of course. Actually HURT the kitten? Hell NO.

 

[Pimpwerx]

If it were snakes people would be cheering this man.

Not if that snake had just saved an orphan from a burning building, they wouldn't. :lol

You're right though, people rank animals differently based on preferences. I doubt anyone would have cared if he stomped a bunch of diseas-ridden sewer rats. I mean, he's still demented, but they're sewer rats, and people hate them. It they were pigeons...maybe not so much shock either. If it was a bunch of doe-eyed baby seals...maybe more outrage. If it was a family of fun-loving cockroaches? Hmmm, that's a tough one.

It's funny to see reactions in this thread. Me? I just plain hate animals. Not hate them where I want to hurt them. But I generally don't slow down for animals crossing the road unless there's a chance they'll damage my car. Since my car is a lot lower now, that's more often, but I'm not one of those people that'll slam on the brakes just to avoid a stupid squirrel or cat. Matter of fact, I kept my foot right in it the other day when a squirrel ran under my car. I think he was alright...I think. I didn't look back, b/c IMO, it'll teach these animals to stay the fuck off the road. Natural selection, gotta love it. PEACE.