The new eco-friendly Republican party! They're on the forefront of offshore drilling, they love hydrogen and electric cars that they'll give $300 million to, but so help me god if those geese aren't shitting on my lawn...
JACKSON, Mississippi, July 11, 2008 (NBC) -- Former Republican Mississippi State Senator Mike Gunn has entered guilty pleas to charges he took young Canadian geese from their habitat and killed them in his gas grill.
On Wednesday he was ordered to pay a $5,000 fine, serve one year of probation and perform 80 hours of unspecified community service.
Gunn was seen taking the geese April 25th by neighbor Carol Boland. Boland said her attention was drawn to Gunn when she saw adult geese attacking him, trying to save their young.
She said he put the goslings in a gas grill and when that didn't kill them, he beat them to death.
Gunn told authorities he fed the geese to his dog.
After Gunn pleaded guilty in federal court he joked about the episode.
"I ran a foul of the law, and laid a huge egg and have received a gaggle of problems as a result, I am just glad this wild goose chase is behind us now," Gunn joked as he left court.
Jim Walker, spokesman for Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, the agency that first investigated the incident, said he was pleased
Heartbreaking.