Train conductor files lawsuit over goose attack

Charleston Daily Mail ^ | 2/22/08 | Staff Reports

[mountaineer1997]

When a train conductor was performing an inspection, he was goosed and fell down; he sues his employer on February 4, 2008.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

A deed most fowl?

[Tijeras_Slim]

A goose once bit my sister.

[Admin Moderator]

Please do not alter headlines, and please do not place stories such as this one in Breaking News.

[tlb]

Sounds like a problem with the pecking order

[In veno, veritas]

I thought it was a different type of "goosed."

m-w.com: "goosed
One entry found.
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): goosed; goos·ing
Date: circa 1880
1 : to poke between the buttocks with an upward thrust
2 : to increase the activity, speed, power, intensity, or amount of : spur "

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

It would have been even more unseemly had his pants split.

[leda]

beware of surprise goose attacks...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Date: circa 1880
1 : to poke between the buttocks with an upward thrust

This usage is now called "Morforded".

[cripplecreek]

When I saw the title I knew I should take a gander at the story.

[Gabz]

Not going to touch this.................

[mrs. a]

This suit has much merit. It was truly and unsafe work environment. If there are no warning shouts of “There’s a goose on the loose!” how was the poor man expected to defned himself?

OSHA needs to work this into their training programs, STAT.

[Bigg Red]

Ewww! Why did you have to tell me what “to goose” means!?All of these years, I have assumed it meant to have one’s bottom pinched. I assumed the goose allusion was in the similarity of the pinch to a bite by a goose.

[In veno, veritas]

I’ve heard it used in a number of ways myself. I was kinda surprised when I saw the m-w definition.

[CzarNicky]

Why did I imagine someone attacked him with a goose?