Police say a man playing a game of truck, truck, goose at Lake Jacksonville was able to fly away before he was caught.<\/p>\n
Jacksonville police responded about 10:29 p.m. Sunday to Point 1 Road off New Lake Road after a caller reported seeing someone using their truck to chase geese, according to a police report.<\/p>\n
Giant Canada geese are a common year-round sight at many Morgan County lakes, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources. The large birds \u2014 weighing anywhere from 6 to 24 pounds \u2014 typically are docile but can become quite aggressive during nesting season, which usually is March through May.<\/p>\n
They also are protected under federal law.<\/p>\n
The driver of the black truck was gone when officers arrived, and the witness did not get a license plate number, according to Jacksonville Police\u00a0Lt. Sean Walker.<\/p>\n
Police documented the incident, but there was no indication any birds were caught or injured, according to a police report.<\/p>\n
“They’re geese; he’s not going to catch them,” Walker said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a man playing a game of truck, truck, goose at Lake Jacksonville was able to fly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4613,116,118,117,115,4614,278],"class_list":["post-267030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-breakingnews","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-news","tag-pubnow","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}