Confrontation in the park

Evening all.

I thought I might share a little tale about what happened in the park today.

There was me, the wife, our 3 year old son, and one of my mates. We'd gone to feed the ducks.

Having fed the ducks, we were walking off towards the kiddie play area when I became aware that we were being followed.

Some aggressive toe rag was approaching with clear intentions of attacking us. I was the first to notice, and I immediately dispensed a warning, then thinking that was it, turned and continued walking. It then become clear that my warning had had no effect, and the aggressor was now closely rapidly, clearly coming to attack. Not wanting it to spiral into a full blown fight, but at the same time not wanting my wife or son (or myself) to get hurt, I decided I had no option but to match aggression with aggression, so I went into battle mode and charged the aggressor, making a very big display of aggression, trying to make myself look as terrifying as possible in the hope that the thug would panic and turn and flee. Fortunately it worked. Daft thing obviously mistook me for just another towny. When you're raised among all manner of livestock, you have to learn to stand your ground against beasts many times bigger than a stupid goose

 

You had me worried for a minute there Dave

We had Gooses and Swans wandering the caravan park last week, no match for Willow though

 

No it was a goose

 

Quack Quack
( I do know the noise geese make , but it would not make it past the forum censor )

 

Probably a 'care in the community' goose.

 

He only wanted a gander close up Clueless! Just checking you out.

 

Quesso, una grande quesso con cibolas, muchas quesso. Well thats how Gooses sound to me.

 

Cheese one big cheese with ??? a lot of cheese?

 

Also, should have said, there are only a few important Spanish phrases:

1. Quesiero un cerveza grande por favor
2. No tengo cerveza
3. Tu es un senorita mucho bonita
4. Tienes buenas tetas

I'm still learning, so I might have got that slightly wrong, but at least I'm prioritising my practice.

 

Could have been a Goose on drugs.......

 

Geese make good 'watchdogs' .... some folk is South Africa keep them on their smallholdings

there was an aggresive swan in Cambridge that used to attack rowers and he was called 'Mr Asbo'

from what I gather, he has been relocated

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-14184565

 

A colleague of mine keeps geese as 'guard dogs' and very efficient they are too - to the extent that a small stash of suitable sticks are kept in the hedge outside their property just in case they forget to put them in the car and find themselves marooned in their vehicle when they return home. Going shopping in that household is a whole new experience, 'List, shopping bags, dry cleaning, stuff for the re-cycling, heavy sticks!'

 

The Council at Bowness on Windermere were going to cull 1000 geese, but they got up a petition.
They had a Gander at it and backed down.
Didn't know geese could write (before SOE gets in)