A city, up to its knees in goose grief with birds leaving hundreds of pounds of droppings every day, has brought in a $400,000 drone army to get rid of them. A gaggle of up to 400 Canada geese has landed in Foster City, part of the San Francisco Bay Area, scaring children and disrupting the chemical balance of standing water. The Washington Post reports that simpler methods had been trialed, to no avail, and now all-out goose warfare is being initiated in early September, with teams of border collies, as well as airborne and marine drones, being deployed to disrupt their habits. The drones will be shaped like falcons as part of intimidation tactics, amounting to full-scale beast vs. bot warfare. Per the Post, Parks and Recreation Director Derek Schweigart said, “If we can find a way to man

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