{"id":246,"date":"2005-05-09T19:26:12","date_gmt":"2005-05-09T23:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/05\/09\/goose-stepping-spreads-across-mass\/"},"modified":"2005-05-09T19:26:12","modified_gmt":"2005-05-09T23:26:12","slug":"goose-stepping-spreads-across-mass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/09\/goose-stepping-spreads-across-mass\/","title":{"rendered":"Goose Stepping Spreads Across Mass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a5044'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/gstepp.gif\" width=\"304\" height=\"194\" align=\"left\"><font size=\"+2\"><strong>Mother Goose Killed<\/strong><\/font><\/p>\n<p>ATTLEBORO<br \/>\n        (AP) &#8212; A Rhode Island man charged with stomping to death a Canada goose<br \/>\n        and<br \/>\n        five goslings said he did it because he felt threatened<br \/>\n        by the birds.<\/p>\n<p>        John A. Sanders, 33, was arraigned Monday in Attleboro District Court<br \/>\n        on charges<br \/>\nof animal cruelty and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, an industrial engineer from North Kingstown, R.I., was working at a<br \/>\nTexas Instruments plant in Attleboro on Saturday. According to the police report,<br \/>\nhe was walking on the campus when an adult goose hissed at Sanders, who slipped<br \/>\nand fell in mud.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Angered by this fall, he began his rampage, chasing the goslings and kicking<br \/>\nthem,&quot; the report said.<\/p>\n<p>A witness reported seeing Sanders running across the grass, shouting and stopping<br \/>\nto jump up and down. The witness called police, who found two goslings flattened<br \/>\non the parking lot, and three more dead on the grass.<\/p>\n<p>The adult goose, believed to be the goslings&#8217; mother, was taken to an animal<br \/>\nhospital in West Bridgewater, where it was euthanized Sunday because its injuries<br \/>\nwere too severe, said Karen Harvey, Attleboro&#8217;s animal control officer.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/www1.whdh.com\/news\/articles\/local\/B75468\/\">WHDH Boston 7<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Goose Killed ATTLEBORO (AP) &#8212; A Rhode Island man charged with stomping to death a Canada goose and five goslings said he did it because he felt threatened by the birds. John A. Sanders, 33, was arraigned Monday in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/05\/09\/goose-stepping-spreads-across-mass\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}