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Geese: They’re not just a thing Bob Cratchit serves you at an underwhelming Christmas dinner featuring an annoying coughing child. They’re also a part of the community. Our community. And it helps to hear stories of humans and geese getting along, rather than tales of terror and danger.
One such story comes from Ohio, where a mother goose (but not the Mother Goose) flagged down police for assistance. WKRC reports that a non-Ryan gosling was tangled up and a cop’s attention was grabbed to come to its rescue. Here’s how Sergeant James Givens of the Cincinnati Police Department described his encounter with the mama goose:
“It kept pecking and pecking and normally they don’t come near us. Then it walked away and then it stopped and looked back so I followed it and it led me right over to the baby that was tangled up in all that string,” Givens said.
The incident was recorded on Givens’ phone because how often do you get a chance to film a goose rescue? He and specialist Cecilia Charron called the SPCA for assistance in freeing the gosling from its tether (the string of a discarded Mother’s Day balloon), but when the wait was too long, action was taken.
“Well she has a couple of kids of her own and I guess that motherly instinct must’ve kicked in because it was like they communicated. The mother goose didn’t bother her,” Given said. “So Specialist Charron came and untangled it. It took her awhile because it was all wrapped up.”
Givens confessed he was surprised the goose was so calm when it came to a human handling her baby. May this moment of unity spark an exciting new frontier for human-goose relations.
(via WKRC)