Man Chases Goose Back to Pond

I was at wit's end after waiting 40 minutes in the rain for a bus across town to campus, but had I not stuck it out, I would not have seen this.

I looked to my left and saw a goose standing on the sidewalk at the bus stop. It looked like he was waiting for the bus. He must have come from across the street in the Central Park pond.

As I reached into my backpack for my camera, a man at the bus stop began waving his arms at the goose. He chased the goose into the street, and the goose waved its wings, as if to say, "Whoa, WTF?!?"

Disregarding the traffic, this man ran after the goose all the way to the park gates. The goose flew low over the gate and out of sight, presumably into the pond. The man strolled calmly back to the bus stop as if he hadn't just recklessly chased a goose into traffic.

It reminded me of Bob, the crazy goose that spent a few weeks hanging around the main crossroads on the St. Mary's College campus back in the mid 1990s.

He hung out on the brick path between the library and the student union, pecking and biting passers by. He ruthlessly had at my duck boots one rainy day as I rode by on my bike. We suspected that one of the campus stoners (i.e., a student) had either gotten Bob high or accidentally hit him in the head with a frisbee.