Gas the Geese? New Jersey town plans to kill over 60 geese that took over local park after ‘exhausting all other options’

The New Jersey town of Peapack has reached their wit’s end with a local gaggle of geese that occupy their town’s park. Their final solution? Gas the Geese.

According to residents, the geese in Liberty Park won’t stop shitting everywhere and it’s ruining the entire area. Kids come home and have geese poop on their shoes.

No parent wants that, right? So of course, the only option was to take the issue to city council and vote on the best way to get rid of the geese.

That ultimately led to the decision to have Federal Wildlife Officials round up the geese and gas them to death using carbon dioxide.

Wait…what?!

Gas The Geese?

NY Post – A New Jersey town is planning to kill dozens of geese that have turned a public park into their personal potty — despite strong opposition from community members over the “inhumane” approach to the problem.

The Peapack and Gladstone Borough Council voted in March for a plan to hire federal wildlife officials to round up roughly 60 geese in Liberty Park next month — when they cannot fly — and gas them to death with carbon dioxide.

The council said they’ve exhausted all other options to rid the park and its pond of the nuisance geese that have taken over and called in exterminators from the US Department of Agriculture “in desperation.”

Christ almighty. Where are the protests for the mass genocide of geese in New Jersey? I wonder how the city council even got to this point. Imagine who was sitting in on this decision and next think you know, a board member suggests rounding the geese up and gassing them all to take back your park. 

“The geese are a challenge in our town,” Councilwoman and veterinarian Jamie Murphy said at the March 5 meeting when the vote was held. 

“There’s goose poop everywhere. These toddlers and kids are running around the park,” she continued. “The reality is our park is way too small to support that many geese. It’s not good for them. It’s not good for us.” 

Trust me, being a “golf guy”, I’m not a fan of geese by any means. While I always appreciate a drastic response to such a small problem, it’s hard to believe that just gassing a bunch of geese is the best possible solution here, right?

Honestly, I’m not even sure if killing 60 geese would solve the problem.

The second you send 60 to the chamber, another 60 are going to be flying overhead and see an empty park, ripe for the taking. From there, it’s a never-ending cycle of Geese Gassing.

It’s not like these birds have brains and understand consequences of their actions. I don’t see this progressing to anything else but a low level Wildlife Official manning the gas chambers every other day throughout the summer.

Having someone spend their summer vacation being the “gas the geese” guy is the classic serial killer origin story but maybe that’s the masterplan anyways?

Well, it looks like the residents of Peapack and Gladstone are also a bit shocked at the solution to get rid of the geese. Over 2,000 people have signed a petition to save the geese rather than gas the geese to death. Volunteers have offered to pick up the geese poop themselves and have even showed up to court on the geese behalf in order to find a wa to prevent the gas chambers. 

ABC 7 – Now a host of others are offering other methods to shoo them away.

“Everyone’s on board, the Animal Protection League is more than willing to work with them and help to implement these measures,” Jonach said.

Others say they already have volunteers willing to step in and help with the negative impact of the birds.

“There’s volunteers to clean up the excrement, there are volunteers to come rake, there are volunteers to pretty much take care of anything they’re troubled with,” DiCarlo said.

I know what you’re thinking and trust me, I’m thinking the exact same thing.

Now you want to gas the geese right? There’s nothing worse than a stubborn Animal Rights Activist. They are probably the ones who complained in the first place and are now just unhappy with the solution to gas the geese. I smell “annoying” already.

Maybe since they are picking up poop all Summer, they’ll flip over to the darkside and end up on the “gas the geese” side after all.

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