Peabody Residents Fume Over Hit-And-Run Baby Geese Killer

PEABODY, MA — There is outrage in the Winona Street area of Peabody — and echoed loudly on Peabody social media message boards — from residents near the pond who say a driver intentionally hit a family of geese crossing the road, killing three of the goslings, on Tuesday morning.

A disturbing home surveillance video has been posted on one community message board where you can hear the impact of the geese being hit, the mother goose wailing, and a witness loudly cussing out the driver, who witnesses say sped away without stopping.

Neighbors said that three of the geese were killed, a fourth was injured and that area residents who see the families of geese return to the area to hatch and raise their goslings each year are traumatized.

One of the residents told WCVB-TV that a group of residents buried the three dead baby geese.

Peabody police are investigating the incident and are looking for the driver of what from the surveillance video appears to be a gray or silver sedan to come forward.

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)