Awful truth. (On Board).Goose involved in fly-by fly·by also fly-by n. pl. fly·bys A flight passing close to a specified target or position, especially a maneuver in which a spacecraft or satellite passes sufficiently close to a body to make detailed observations without crash with skateboarder WINNIPEG--A Winnipeg teenager says he was stunned stun tr.v. stunned, stun·ning, stuns 1. To daze or render senseless, by or as if by a blow. 2. To overwhelm or daze with a loud noise. 3. when he was knocked off his skateboard by a low-flying goose. The Canada goose Canada goose Brown-backed, light-breasted goose (Branta canadensis) with a black head and neck and white cheeks. Subspecies vary in size, from the 4.4-lb (2-kg) cackling goose to the 14.3-lb (6.5-kg) giant Canada goose, which has a wingspread of up to 6.6 ft (2 m). was heading for a pond when it apparently misjudged its landing and flew into Shawn Hacking's face. The 13-year-old suffered two badly scraped knees, a sprained wrist, and a red face where the bird's wing slapped him. His friend Brent Bruchanski told the Winnipeg Free Press The Winnipeg Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Founded in 1872, as the Manitoba Free Press, it is the oldest newspaper in western Canada. It is the newspaper with the largest readership in the province. : "It was so funny, but I felt sorry for him at the same time. It flew out of nowwhere andthen... Whambam!" Shawn's mother Kim Hacking said: "When he came in, he said, 'I got hit by a goose.' I thought that was some kind of car or something". |
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