If they had scales and breathed fire, you could kill every goose you see and be hailed as a hero. The park tells the manufacturer what color they want, and the company dyes the soil accordingly. Geese are evil tricksters, always turning our yards into seas of poop and chasing small children into ponds. If you're super observant, you might have noticed that different parks seem to have different colored soil, some more reddish than others, but that's artificial. The manufacturer takes some clay and takes some silt and takes some sand and grinds it all together, using a ratio settled on by soil scientists. They buy imported soil that's been specially designed for baseball. So, baseball parks don't leave it to chance and grab whatever's local. Soil that absorbs too much water forms mud, which you can't run on properly.Īrturo Pardavila III Reduce the chance we bring out the tarp, and you can spare yourself a lot of fan rage. A time when all you want is a nice, cold beer to sooth your inner turmoil thanks to the government and your ailing relationship with your. Soil that dries too quickly leads to potholes. A time for pool days and barbecue nights. Soil that compresses too easily may trip players. But you get the point: Different dirt can lead to different gameplay. Note: To avoid offending readers from various states, we replaced the jokes we originally planned for the previous paragraph with a bunch of stereotypes that we simply made up, which make zero sense. This cuts off the oxygen supply and keeps the embryo inside from developing. Instead, the usual method is to furtively coat each egg in corn oil.
In fact, you can't let her know the eggs have been disturbed at all. You cannot simply break the eggs, because then the mother goose would just lay more. So what do people do when they want to control the geese population in an area? An activity known as "egg addling." They stalk geese to their nests and mess with the eggs when the goose isn't looking, so the eggs don't hatch. There are exceptions for hunting season and specific situations where they're a serious threat (like around airports, where geese in engines spell doom for all), but other than that, you can't kill, capture, chase, or disrespect geese in any way. Specifically, we're talking about the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, under which you may not kill wild geese. Megan Lee/Unsplash Both maritime law and bird law. But as it is, geese in the United States are protected by law.
Geese are evil tricksters, always turning our yards into seas of poop and chasing small children into ponds.