Thread: STUFF ;CANADA GEESE

DOC some years ago organised a mass cull on Ellesmere primarily but also other lakes in the canterbury region.Initially they invited all interested parties to assist in the planning of the operation including recreational shooters via a recently formed "organisation".

One day out of the blue i gets a call from TV3 reporter to say the geese were being massacred and what did I know about it?i referred them to a spokesman as i recoiled "WTF is going on"

Yup TV3 gleefully showed wounded ,dead and dying birds covering the lake-but a portion of the tally,a lot we discovered later on a skeletal remains amongst the marshy scrub on the lake verges -no doubt they crawled in there to die painfully .Next w/e the lake was chocka with persons cleaning up the evidence of their efforts

They also choppered a certain high country lake leading to mortally injured birds dragging themselves onto SH 73 -great look for our bloody tourism industry .

DOC on realisng they fucked up majorly promptly placed the clown who authorised it on leave -we found this out when a very very pissed off colleague of mine fronted them demanding answers. Oops somehow I was able to see the paperwork giving all the names etc as the guilty party inexplicably gave an enraged shooter a copy ,or was this an attempt to mollify him???

Suffice to say excavator loads of the stinky stuff was hurled into the revolving blade as DOC ducked for cover.The incumbent Min of conservation at the time was also a casualty handing in her ticket shortly after.

Oh yes youll love this -as a local chopper was used to herd the geese CAA regs didnt allow the use of steel ammo around choppers..steel which is statutory regulations for ellesmere so lead was used -10,000 rounds to be precise sourced from a hunting franchise sold by a self appointed expert recreational goose shooter,.

Overall a gigantic clusterfuck which simply made canadas very paranoid for quite some years and fucking hard to shoot . Some DOC staff got very embarrassed when it was mentioned others rolled their eyes"bosses couldnt be bloody told"

The Christchurch earthquakes were a golden opportunity for the canadas -as eastern chch reverted to jungle (gotta love those greenies eh what) the canadas moved in en masse.I saw mobs of 100or more regularly on the Avon River and realised then if they went unchecked again shit would hit fan .sure enough its happened but what efforts have been made seem few and far between ,although a lot of it seems to be influenced by public reactions and perceptions as we have had the misfortune to bear the brunt of recently