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"Geese may look pretty flying through the air, but once they come in for their landing, watch out.\"Oh my gosh, that's a lot of goose poop,\" sixth-grader Bobby Conarroe said.Geese have been landing outside Kings' Columbia Intermediate School with each goose leaving behind 2-3 pounds of waste a day.When you have more than 100 geese landing outside of the school each day, the waste adds up.\"Well, there's always concern when you have waste from animals, particularly in the amounts we have. It\u2019s just not a good thing when you try and intermix that with 600 kids on the same site,\" Steve Waldmann, manager of business affairs for Kings Local Schools, said.Students said they notice it at recess.\"We always want to play basketball, but the problem is there's always goose poop on the ground, so when we bounce the ball, it\u2019s all over the ball,\" Conarroe said.Tiptoeing through the lot isn't easy at the end of the day.\"I play percussion, so you have this really big instrument you have to roll, and it's really hard.\" said sixth-grader, Corinne Burroughs.Even when the district pays to have the lot cleaned, it doesn't last long.\"The next day, it was everywhere again,\" student Ethan Platter said.The district said it\u2019s been told geese are attracted to the area because of the nearby lake and ponds.So now, fake owls hang from nearby trees and the district has hired Away with Geese to help kick the birds out.Lights have also been installed around the school and in the nearby pond.\"They all provide that low-density flashing light that bothers the geese at nighttime, so it keeps them from trying to come here and nest and making this a permanent residence,\" Waldmann said.It's a $3,000 to $4,000 investment that will hopefully chase the geese away for good.The district is open to any other ideas, if anyone has them. Kings Schools said it\u2019s committed to using humane ways to get rid of the problem.\u00A0"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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