Theodore Decker: Goose culling could bring about yet another Downtown festival

It is a melancholy object to those who walk through this great city, when they see the parks, the paths, the regal promenades of the Scioto Mile, crowded with waterfowl of both sexes followed by three, four or six goslings, all in raggedy feathers, importuning every passenger for an alms of bread and cracked corn. It was with this in mind, no doubt, that Columbus recently paid an exterminator to round up 250 Canada geese and kill them, at a cost of $10,750, or roughly $43 per