MA: Shooting goose leads to multiple felony charges

[seamusTX]

Westport, Massachusetts (southeast edge of nowhere): A 53-year-old man allegedly shot a goose in an urban neighborhood. Police searched his apartment and charged him with 17 or 18 felonies, mostly weapons offenses.

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The goose was shot in the back.

- Jim

[seniorshooteress]

Was he going to cook his goose?

[seamusTX]

Whether or not he was planning to, he did.

- Jim

[Oldgringo]

Massachusetts!

I was sitting in a Logan International Airport bar awaiting my flight back to St. Louis when Teddy Kennedy drove off into Chappaquidick pond with his passenger. I didn't leave anything in Massachusetts then; ergo, I have no reason to go back now.

[Liberty]

Shooting a goose out of season without a license without state or federal stamps is pretty serious charges. but this guy will have to serve 1 year mandatory for lack of firearms ID card. (maybe 1 for each gun?) He did have a RI license. I guess I can't hold much hope for them recognizing my CHL in the near future.
What I don't understand is what shooting a goose in the back has to do with anything?

[The Annoyed Man]

Police then secured a search warrant for Dalton’s apartment and found seven firearms, four shotguns and three rifles. None of the guns were secure, according to police, and Dalton did not have a license to possess them. In one room, under some newspapers, police found a dead goose that had been shot inn the back.

Perhaps the Boston Herald should worry about hiring reporters who can spell, and proof-readers who aren't asleep on the job.

But all that aside, was it a Pit Goose, or an attack-trained Goose?

I saw a whole herd of geese rummaging around next to a pond I drove past on my way to church last Monday night. The use of "herd" is deliberate. These were wild, but they were far too big and fat to be a "flock" of anything. No. They were a thundering herd. All 5 or 6 of them.

I will have my gun out "just in case" the next time I drive past that pond. It doesn't seem right, somehow, to be in such mortal danger on one's way to sanctification.

[seamusTX]

What I don't understand is what shooting a goose in the back has to do with anything?

The goose was fleeing and posed no danger to the shooter.



- Jim

[seniorshooteress]

What I don't understand is what shooting a goose in the back has to do with anything?

The goose was fleeing and posed no danger to the shooter.



- Jim

Just out n out cold blooded murder of a defenseless goose.

[chartreuse]

Perhaps the Boston Herald should worry about hiring reporters who can spell, and proof-readers who aren't asleep on the job.

Sadly, it seems like most newspapers these days have decided that there's no need for competence now that we have spill chuckers.