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Hooray. Thoughtless douchebags doing thoughtless douchebaggy stuff. People suck so much sometimes.
That’s has been happening in Central Park in New York City as well. There is no good reason why blowguns should even be available for sale or carried in NYC. Time for another banned item in the Big Apple.
Especially as the targeting of Canadian geese clearly shows the perpetrators are driven by xenophobia.