From a Waterloo, Ontario, resident’s account of the behavior of geese in her neighborhood, as told to a journalist at the CBC in April.

For close to a week now, we can’t even leave our house. It’s crazy. We never thought this would happen. We just thought they were two geese. Now, all of a sudden, the dad is angry. He’s flying at everyone: old people, kids. Our friends came over to hang out and the goose attacked. Croissants went flying. And then the geese started eating them. We’ve been sitting at our window just watching these geese attack people all day. This one girl, she was running and then boom: the goose just nailed her in the head. It’s pretty scary. We’ve tried to call everywhere—we’ve called every single animal control there is. We’ve done it all. But they just . . . they do not care. Kids on our street are coming at them with water guns. They don’t care. They’re still outside—right now.