A mystery next door:
Strange ski tracks in the snow
What the heck is this? While out walking Duncan Madog, we came across these tracks that look like they were made by skis. The tracks seem to make graceful curves in the snow with the pair of skis seeming to remain parallel about 20 inches apart.
A closer look at the tracks
It appears that the only markings in the snow are caused by two skis. There is no evidence of a track as on a snowmobile or pole plants as on cross country skis. What could have made these tracks?
Answer: The Goosinator!
The maintenance department at FRCC have finally found something useful to do besides maliciously destroying neighborhood property: The are using a ‘drone’ to scare away the geese! Yes, there is a company in Denver that developed this remote controlled wingless ‘ski-plane’ to chase away geese off your property. The company calls it “The Goosinator”. Apparently you have someone “fly” this thing after the geese a few times and then set up a few “decoy” orange painted toothy yellow-eyed goosinator impostors around the yard and the geese won’t land there again. Or poop there again, which I would assume is the main reason for scaring away the geese. The goosinator website says they cost about $3500.oo which is cheap based on their cost analysis of goose damage to golf courses.
But the FRCC is no golf course, so the justification for this expense seems kind of flaky. Being that the FRCC is the Front Range Community College, it might have made better sense to have had some of the tech students work with the construction and art students to build their own goosenator or perhaps have a few teams build a few of them and have goose chasing competitions. I also think the students could build something like the device pictured above for about $500. They might even learn something in the process.