Taking a Gander
New York City plans to send geese captured around its airports to a Pennsylvania slaughterhouse and then distribute them to food banks there. – NBC New York
I was tempted to “take” a gander once, in a park down the street. It was near Thanksgiving, I was broke as usual, and he looked like he could feed a party of eight. There were plenty of geese and no one around, but (who knows?) some PETA-principled pest might have been training his high-powered telescope on me from a distant house and I couldn’t bear the thought of my kids having to tell their friends why dad had gone to jail.
