NYC Mayor to Gas Chamber Geese: "Sweet Dreams!"

Animal-rights activists protested yesterday outside New York City Mayor Bloomberg's home, outraged as Canada Geese were rounded up to be killed in the gas chamber.

NYC and the Port Authority are paying federal wildlife officials to trap and gas 2,000 Canada geese. Yesterday NYC rounded up at least 40 of them. “This is their molting season so they can’t even fly so they’re helpless,” said protest organizer Edita Birnkrant from the group Friends of Animals.

“The Mayor says he wishes them "Sweet Dreams", one of the most obscene statements a public official has ever made," said Wayne Johnson from the Coalition to Stop the Canada Goose Kill. "Does he really think going into a gas chamber means sweet dreams?”

Mayor Bloomberg says the bird strike that forced U.S. Airways Flight 1549 to land in the Hudson River highlights the dangers Canada geese pose to aviation. Protesters say resident Canada geese are the ones being targeted for death when it was actually migratory Canada geese that collided with Flight 1549.

Source: nbcphiladephia; Photo: geesebusters