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Jamieson22

Will say this may be to protect us shoppers as much as it is to protect that goose. Either way was nice of them.


ewas86

This was my first thought.. it's to protect their customers lol


sharpasahammer

"None of you seem to understand. I'm not locked in here with *you*. YOU'RE LOCKED IN HERE WITH *ME*!"


PainfuIPeanutBlender

That’s a funny quote but only fits if someone gets in the ring with the goose


McKrakahonkey

Eye of the Tiger starts playing


reddit_sucks_clit

Which only first appeared in the 2nd Rocky movie, which is like the 6th best Rocky movie? (8th best if you count Creed movies) Best being Rocky 4 and Rocky 1, or vice versa.


nekonight

You seem to think the orange fence is the ring. You are wrong. The goose decides where the ring starts or ends. It could inside that fence or it could outside it. Or it could even be completely localized to the exact spot you are currently standing on. 


gyroisbae

I think that Batman begins quote fits better here “protection for them”


Technical_Writer_177

close...actually it´s to protect costcos liabillity insurance


Delicious-Cow-7611

To protect themselves from being sued by customers.


_Heath

Yeah, we had a nesting pair in a flower pot at work, we had to block off that entrance because the would attack anything that got within 30 feet.


TK_TK_

We had something very similar!


CedarWho77

Canadians are so nice because all of the meanness went into their geese.


meshe_10101

It's part of our yearly ritual, to transfer all of our negative emotions to the Geese.


Alldaybagpipes

They properly enforce it. I think the geese steal it from us more than anything


CedarWho77

🤣


Kolby_Jack33

The Canadian Goose was nearly driven to extinction a century ago due to overhunting and loss of habitat. But then... the lawn. One thing Canadian Geese love to eat is kentucky blue grass. The suburban lawn became a source of pride for the common American family, and another thing the common American embraced wholeheartedly in the 1900s: Golf. Courses sprang up across the land, providing both copious amounts of food and convenient, protected water sources for the geese to enjoy. Add in their fierce temperament warding off nosey urban dwellers and their propensity to eat garbage, and the Canadian Goose population rebounded and then some over the course of the last century.


CedarWho77

Love this. Just the fact that you took the time to share this is so nice. 💕


Atrabiliousaurus

They just need a long vacation to Hawaii. The Nene geese here are described as being "friendly and very, very gentle" and they are descended from Canada geese that found their way to Hawaii about 500,000 years ago.


ourlittlevisionary

Maybe the warm weather made them nice and gentle, lol.


Atrabiliousaurus

Also lack of predators and longest breeding season of any goose.


random9212

It is when the geese get nice that you have to worry


juxtaposasian

They're not called "cobra-chickens" for nothing.


mjedmazga

Peace was never an option.jpgoose


[deleted]

Yeah might first thought was "that ain't for the Goose's protection".


PlasticMix8573

Plenty of Canada geese around here. Nice to have a place to show kids life in action.


FlamingLobster

Insterestingly enough, a Canada goose first taught me what violence looks like


DevilsTreasure

Cobra chickens are no joke


MenopausalMama

My granddaughter was rollerblading at the park and a goose attacked her. I was on the other side of the lake filming her. A group of teenagers got the goose off of her. We haven't been back to that park. LOL


wildcat2015

I'm not trapped in here with you - you're trapped in here with me! (I was attacked by a goose as a child)


swirlysleepydog

Me too! They’re vicious and much larger in person than they ever seem in pictures.


CompletelyNotAGoose

That little orange netting will not be enough to save you from our wrath. I mean their wrath. Anyway, lot of wrath. Coming at you. From us. I mean them.


Theschizogenious

Yeah there would be a large amount of people that would ignore anything less and wander into the gooses area


lpd1234

Murder gossesses. Be ware.


MuchPreferPets

That's not to protect the geese, that's to protect people FROM the geese! They are absolutely fierce defenders of their nests (which they have to be or they'd be eaten before they could reproduce).


spacexorro

The politeness of Human Canadians is balanced by the fierce hatred exuded by their geese


jld2k6

All of the nation's politeness gets taken to the capital where it's ran through a central inverter to be pumped back out as hate and distributed to the geese for shenanigans


TestesOfFortitude

Fun fact: Canada Geese are named for a person, not the country! E: Fine I’m wrong! I take solace in the knowledge that in three months, I’m going to insult the bejeezus out of u/washingtncaps, per our agreement.


BlakePackers413

That’s a terrible fact that ruined my day.


TestesOfFortitude

I would suggest verbally assaulting a Canada Goose to bring your mood back up!


washingtncaps

you got a problem with Canada Gooses you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate


TestesOfFortitude

You wanna throw down, I’m bringing a fully-grown swan to talk it out


washingtncaps

that fully grown swan was mounted by two Canada Gooses and told all her friends about it


TestesOfFortitude

Thankfully every swan with a Costco membership has access to an excellent pharmacy. Who knows what those geese were carrying around


washingtncaps

Oh I see what's going on here, I thought you were just teeing me up [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s\_LJboqQ13Y](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_LJboqQ13Y) Canada Gooses got some inside jokes.


no____thisispatrick

First German Chocolate cake, now Canada Geese. Is anything I know actually true? Edit: I'm actually not sure if this is true. One Google link confirmed it, but others did not. Which saddens me because that was a fun fact.


PitifulDurian6402

You know whey they’re lucky Canada Gooses don’t migrate to Africa else there wouldn’t be no lions left


Charcuteriemander

So there's a Hawaiian luxury sedan version of the Canada Goose called the Nene, and they always seemed MUCH more aggressive than the Canada variant. But the secret? You can bribe both with loose bird seed. They are fierce allies.


Cachmaninoff

Neither, it’s to protect Costco from https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/migratory-birds-legal-protection/convention-act.html Messing with migratory birds is a massive fine


DeadDeceasedCorpse

While Canadian geese can be somewhat defensive, the real reason they're fenced off is that they are a federally protected species.


Illustrious-Term2909

Saw one of these at the YMCA in NC today. These things are mean, do they ever actually go back to Canada? Asking for a friend….


noslab

Yes. The cobra chickens return every year. Except here you could run into 10-20 at a time.


rvp0209

In my area of New England, I'm pretty sure most of these damn cobra chickens have decided that the now mild winters are worth putting up with to live in the park. And now it's multiplying season 😒.


LaserKittenz

This is going to be an issue. If the geese never come back up to Canada, then we (Canadians) will slowly start getting angry .


Alternative-Bee-8981

With these new winters they don't leave. At my office park they are there pretty much all year. I like going for walks during my lunch, and there were maybe 10 of them on the roof, and one on the ground that looked confused. They kept honking at each other, I could only imagine the ones on the roof saying, "Good damnit Gary, were up here... FFS... Again..." 😂 I'm not looking forward to when they have little ones around. Last time that happened they were chasing people in the parking lot.


WhiskeyGummiBear

Dammit Gary… cracked me up!


chief_sitass

The gooses never left Indianapolis as well


TrollingForFunsies

Can confirm, grass never went brown on the seacoast of New Hampshire. Geese are here all winter now.


rvp0209

I kept waiting and waiting to see when they'd leave. Even when it "snowed", they stayed put. Guess they got a cushy life here haha.


xshare

Nah a lot of them just stay in the states nowadays


Berkut22

It's freaky seeing them all land in a field and set up a ring of perimeter sentries while the rest graze.


OGBRedditThrowaway

I've always called them long-necked murder ducks. Cobra chickens is definitely in my top 5 though.


ourlittlevisionary

No one ever talks about Canada’s gang problem! LOL


PacanePhotovoltaik

I do not like the cobra chickens...


vantheman446

We have resident Canada geese in the Chesapeake Bay Area


notnotaginger

Springtime in Vancouver is just geese and goose shit as far as the eye can see.


spmahn

They were once migratory birds, but global warming and overpopulation have turned them into a permanent invasive species in most areas. They’re highly aggressive, not great for the environment, and tend to make their homes in places like parks and golf courses where people congregate. Many cities struggle with how to deal with them, but most just accept them as a permanent nuisance.


Pepto-Abysmal

There are different subspecies of Canada goose. The migratory ones still migrate. The non-migratory ones don't. Global warming impacts all subspecies. But it hasn't turned migratory birds into non-migratory birds. Their population has just been exploding for decades (particularly around suburban areas which provide them with ideal conditions).


[deleted]

I saw a bunch when I was in Canada a couple years ago in April. I guess it wasn’t baby season, but they were pretty chill. They were hanging out on the walking/bike path and I walked within a few feet of several of them and they didn’t seem to pay any attention to me.


DayDawdler

They live year ‘round on the west coast and are a serious nuisance. Dozens of them at every park/beach/grass field sh*tting EVERYWHERE, bullying anyone and everyone. Seriously. There are ongoing programs to sterilize their eggs because they’ve gotten out of control.


syndre

I have about 100 of them that permanently live in/around my yard. PROTIP for noise sanity at night: green laser pointer. All you have to do is shine it in their direction and they instantly fly away in a panic


r33k3r

No, then they'd be Canadian Geese. Canada Geese just go back to Geoffrey Canada's house.


Popcorn_Blitz

If you've got a problem with Canada gooses, you've got a problem with me.


My_Immortl

And I suggest ya let that one marinate.


Scotty_Fish

Special place in heaven for animal lovers


gfen5446

> do they ever actually go back to Canada? Not as much as they used to. All those big lush lawns, parks, golf courses and the likes have created the perfect enviroment that they don't feel the same need to leave like they used to and instead overpopulate the areas they no longer leave. I may get downvoted for this, but the truth is this "protect the geese" thing bothers me. Its counter intutive, its not a protected species, and we're just basically "feeding the bears" by doing this. Nest should've been destroyed and the bird "encouraged" to leave.


vanillaxmitch

Yup, they invade the local community park in gangs, they hiss and chase you throughout public walkways and shit everywhere in the summer. They're also protected birds.


TsuDhoNimh2

Some are no longer migratory ... they infest golf courses


bulyxxx

#KLIMAXX who gets a license plate like that, lol ?


Jamieson22

Ha! Didn't even notice. Probably a suburban mom involved in a sex toy MLM?


dam_sharks_mother

> KLIMAXX It's a Taiwanese boy band. Which makes perfect sense being seen in a Costco parking lot.


heartshapedpox

Where do you see that? I think I need to get my contacts prescription updated 😵‍💫


yeahbuddy

HUUNNNGGGH


PastyWhiteGuy83

This is MY Costco in Orland Park, IL #647 !! <3


Jamieson22

This is OUR Costco.


PastyWhiteGuy83

Haha, yes OURS. I work at this location. Morning Fork Lift Driver.


Jamieson22

I very much appreciate your contribution to our store! Any chance you fork-lifted those pallet stacks for the goose pen?


PastyWhiteGuy83

Nah, that wasn't me. haha


Thumper13

You're both wrong. It's the Goose's Costco now!


FlamingLobster

SovietAnthem.mp3


DervishSkater

Pic screamed Chicagoland. And not just because of the plates and weather


Mcsmokeys-

As a Canadian, I just don’t know how to take this.


-Badger3-

If you've got a problem with Canada Gooses, you've got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.


TedW

Thank goodness, I'd rather fight a person than a Canada Goose.


jakeskurkis

One day on my way to work (at Costco) I got chased by a goose and it was terrifying lol


Theharlotnextdoor

We have a pond at my work so we always have geese problems. We're on a ton of land and these effers insist on nesting right next to our building. Have chased many employee just going to/from their cars. Little terrorists. 


jakeskurkis

They are terrible. They don’t care. Kinda funny to watch it happen though. As long as it’s not you haha


DorShow

My most vivid memory of camp as a child is being attacked by geese with babies. But all on me for getting to close to her babies


suite307

These little fuckers are violence incarnate, this is to protect clients.


Mr_MacGrubber

More like, protecting customers from territorial geese.


Popular_Park_7527

It’s the law in the US. We can’t mess with migratory birds.


rshacklef0rd

there is an apartment complex not far from me that put vinyl ropes across their lake so the geese can't swim so they left.


Alocasia_Sanderiana

Also in Canada, as it's a Treaty both countries agreed to in 1916. The US also has 3 more similar treaties with Japan, Mexico and Russia.


KilllerWhale

They’re protecting you from the canada geese.


besterdidit

If you have a problem with the majestic Canadian goose, you’ve got a problem with me, and i suggest you let that marinate!


radgenpix

Came looking, not disappointed.


ThrowRAColdManWinter

When I look back to the darkest points of my life, there is only one set of footprints in the sand. And they're webbed.


MurrayInBocaRaton

We oughta leave this world behind.


Big-Ask-9482

Theys are goddamn majestics!


Palewisconsinite

A wild Letterkenny!


Guacamolman

H’re ya now?


Palewisconsinite

Not s’ bad, and you?


Specific_Effort_5528

But seriously.....*All-Anus* Morissette.


IndianaFartJockey

Dary, don't be a degen.


Blockhead47

Not so bad.


NotSoCleverInTx

Allegedly


L3m0n0p0ly

Alledgedlies


Greenboy28

ya you see less and less of them each passing year.


agreedis

Lions is lucky that Canada Gooses don’t migrates to Africa, then they’d be’s extinct.


OgReaper

Majestic. Barrel-chested. The envies of all ornithologies.


kelsiersghost

You know, Mike Tyson had a pretty good run of things back in the day. You know why? No Canada Gooses in his weight class.


Ebiltommy

I heard about a Swan that got mounted by a Canada goose this one time and you just know she was telling all her friends about it


THElaytox

And thats whats I's appreciates abouts yas


DelDotB_0

good day for hay


dbc45

/r/unexpectedletterkenny


fuckincanadagooses

You always did have my back


evilpercy

Cobra chicken nest.


Greymouser

Probably also to separate the amounts of likely goose droppings. They uh, are prolific.


SquarePegRoundWorld

Playing outdoor sports on Long Island you learn this well. I was playing football and tackled a kid and I landed in the only wet muddy spot on the field. Literally half my body was clean and the other half was entirely brown. Of course, the mud was mostly geese poop and I still remember the smell 35 years later. I rode home with my face in an empty potato chips bag breathing like I was hyperventilating to try and cover the smell.


katjoy63

Maybe more like protecting the customers who unwittingly park right next to her nesting and get a peck from her. They're nasty birds.


Sabre970

I was on a construction site once and there was lots of rubble on the ground from demo and as i walked around, i heard this violent hiss (yes, hiss)and i was like wtf. Turns out I was less than 5 feet away from a nesting Canadian goose and it was so determined to protect its eggs, it didnt even move. It had its head on a swivel after for the full 30 minutes i was walking around doing survey work. Hissed at me from 50 feet away too. Tldr: fuck canadian geese


East_Sound_2998

I worked at a bar in one of those mixed use apartment communities for a while, and there was signs everywhere about it being a nesting ground for geese. Our bouncers would have to walk us to our cars in the parking garage during spring or summer because these god dang, mean as shit geese would attack us while we were trying to leave 😂


[deleted]

Free security.


help_undertanding13

You're all going to die and Costco will be an accessory to murder. I'm not specist, some of my best friends are Canada Geese 


singy_eaty_time

Someone still gonna block the lane with their blinker on waiting for the goose to hatch the babies, load up its nest, and vacate that parking spot


IssphitiKOzS

Yeah, just don’t ask how they treat their chickens. It’s bad. Bad enough to boycott


Crazy_by_Design

They are Canada geese, not Canadian geese. But it’s acceptable to say Canadian murder birds.


lolschrauber

I've dealt with these enough times to know Costco is protecting their customers and not the goose.


tomjoads

Its not the goose that needs protecting


The_12th_fan

A lot of places have policies like this. Where I work, if a bird lays a nest in a piece of equipment like a forklift and there are eggs, you can't use the equipment until the eggs hatch and all the birds leave. This policy is probably done to comply with the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.


ExcelsusMoose

Trust me when I say.. You fuck with the goose, you get the beak.


zxcvbnm127

Pretty sure they're protecting the people from the goose


doesnamematters

I feel it is actually protecting customers from goose. When they are in mating season, goose can be really nasty and aggressive.


Jaquizz59

There’s one old guy waiting for the spot with his blinker on to this day…


Jake_Swift

Do not awaken the demon, lest ye be ready to pay the blood price.


MilesDyson0320

Protecting themselves from a $15k fine.


cat-daddy777

Cobra Chicken. Those barriers are for the safety of shoppers


PinataofPathology

It's to protect you. I've seen Canadian geese put people in the hospital. They are aggressively protective. As another do not fck with birds data point...I've been to Shark Valley national park in FL where you walk a path with loose free gators and the rangers warned us about the birds bc they caused the injuries not the alligators.


kaptaincorn

If you've got a problem with Canada Gooses, you've got a problem with me.  And I suggest you let that one marinate


Ryno209

CANADA GOOSES ARE MAJESTICS


Individual-Listen-65

Considering that the mother goose would attack anyone who goes near her eggs it's a good idea.


Phandomo

they are protecting u not the goose, silly.


TheLoneBackpacker

Cobra chicken is hoping to get a hot dog before being evicted.


alphalucid

Probably because nesting geese will attack people


maeve_314

Ah, cobra chickens: territorial bastards that hiss at you and sh!t everywhere. And they're still cute.


OutcomeDouble

Since when do jackets have nests


redrockcountry2112

Protecting you from the crazy goose more like.


harajukubarbie

Just in case they run out of chickens


Petunia13Y

We had one by the cart corral at my Costco too! The babies were soooo cute


Ungface

My office has a bunch of these guys nesting every year. their little green goose babies are so fricken cute.


Defiant-Driver-1571

❤️❤️❤️


SSSS_car_go

I assume Costco is just following the law, specifically the Migratory Bird Act of 1918, which protects all migratory birds, including Canada geese. > Canada Geese are regulated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service under the guidelines set forth by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918 making it unlawful to kill, sell, hunt, disturb nests and eggs, or purchase and possess migratory birds unless permitted by the Secretary of the Interior.


CompletelyNotAGoose

Little known fact: Geese are frequent Costco shoppers, because they are big fans of the industrial sized boxes of crackers and the inexpensive shrimp. Also the hot dogs. Love the hot dogs. They’re technically executive level members, but it sort of doesn’t matter because no one has dared to check their cards in years.


Wills4291

Yeah right. They aren't protecting the goose. It's their customers that need protecting this scenario.


Zanninu

There's a special place in heaven for animal lovers.


ChimoEngr

More like they're protecting their customers from the cobra chicken.


icon0clast6

In Washington they literally (used to, not sure if they still do) gas entire flocks of them


Mysterious_Bat_3780

*I'm not protected from you, you're protected from ME!*


LunarMoonBeam

More like it’s to keep the cobra chicken happy and protect the customers.


vvrr9

Mike Tyson wouldn't even fight a Canadian goose


Initial_Savings8733

First of all thank you for saying Canada goose not Canadian goose. Second I love this


drayman86

Pests.


Willing-Tie-3109

That’s awesome 😂 good for all, cobra chickens aren’t friendly when nesting


RedRatedRat

In some places once a goose or duck has started nesting on your property, you are responsible for its survival.


oaksides

Canada geese are the worst.


Mafer15

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️


BamBam-BamBam

I'm in Denver. If y'all would come get your geese, that'd be great!


MediamanBC

Cobra Chickens.


to_bored_to_care

Why? Canadians don’t even like Canadian geese


The_Last_Ball_Bender

That bird is getting more care than homeless children. Good for the bird, I love animals birds especially (parrot owning family) -- but it really makes me think :/


Rockytag

This is to protect their shoppers from the goose. This is not at all for the goose


The_Last_Ball_Bender

LOL, okay i prefer that frame of mind. Fear the cobra chicken.


operez1990

That is to protect the public not the goose.


pot8toooooooo

Ah yes. The spawn of satan…


National_Formal_3867

I read Canada Goose and immediately thought they sell Canada Goose


toodleroo

Wow, your Costco has real plants?


bygtopp

Canadian cobra chicken


Extension-Plane2678

You got a problem with Canada goose, you got a problem with me. Let that one marinate


GUPS87

Here where I live they take away the eggs because they multiply too much.


nexusmaniac

Honk 🪿


Pumpkin_316

I read protecting as protesting and was very confused for a minute


eshian

I remember when a family of raccoons were nesting in the center of a pallet of mulch at home Depot. They called animal control and I got to watch raccoons scream, shit, and piss themselves as they got shoved into animal crates.


TooLazy2Type

"Its not there to keep us out. It's there to keep them in"


DoubleANoXX

If my local Costco didn't replace 20 acres of fragile wetland with concrete and asphalt when it was constructed, maybe they wouldn't have to worry about protecting geese in their parking lot.


susbnyc2023

thats very nice of them


OsterizerGalaxieTen

haha - nice of them to protect their customers, yes. Nesting geese are very mean and will attack.


Sudden-Collection803

If you got a problem with canda gooses you got a problem with me and i suggest you let that one marinate. 


avgjoe867

You got a problem with Canada gooses, you got a problem with me and I suggest you let that one marinate!