A Swedish hunter spent two days in bed after being knocked unconscious by a Canada goose that landed on his head moments after his son shot it dead, news reports said Wednesday.
The incident happened in Sweeden.
“It wanted exact its revenge, I assume. If it had gotten a better hit, it could have broken my neck.”
As it was, it hit him in the forehead and left a nice goose-egg.
Needless to say, he felt really stupid. I think he was. Wouldn’t the natural reaction if your son shot a shotgun in the air at a bunch of birds be to at least look up and see what he hit? And then if you see what he hit, to look up to make sure it doesn’t hit you?
This would be an excellent physics problem for a freshman physics class. (I’d say junior physics class, but I don’t want to try to determine the drag coefficient for a Canadian geese. I doubt approximating it as a sphere would work very well.)
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