Hero Goose Snuffed With All The Rest

Jeez. What do you get after becoming a citywide symbol of bravery and resilience by surviving a crossbow bolt through the neck? A bunch of biologists wait til you’ve molted all your flying feathers off and sneak up and throw a net on you. Part of a plot to remove some 400 geese from Prospect Park in order to protect humans flying in airplanes. As theTimes reports: “The biologists, who work with the wildlife services division of the United States Department of Agriculture, then packed the geese two or three to a crate and took them to a facility where they were gassed with lethal doses of carbon dioxide.” Regular goose feeder Anne-Katrin Titze, who had discovered “Target,” the one with an arrow through its neck, last month, was shocked to find the flock missing on Thursday. “It’s a horrible end,” she said.