Sheriff’s Deputies Prevail in Wild Goose Chase

Ain’t no feathers flying in this tale.

But they might have--were it not for the quick work of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputies Brian Oblander and Cory Cline.

Seems Oblander and Cline were cruising around the Santa Clarita Valley just after midnight Sunday when they happened upon a gaggle of stray geese wandering along Remsen Street at Sierra Highway.

As made clear by Sgt. Carl Deeley in his Code 20--police lingo for press release--on the incident, the five geese were in “mortal danger” of getting squashed by cars zipping along Sierra Highway, not to mention the “local coyotes and owls.”

How to save the geese from getting cooked?

“Our intrepid deputies decided to place them in the safety of their radio car,” Deeley said. “The problem is that our webfooted victims failed to realize that the deputies were the good guys and decided they were predators.”

So off the geese went, squawking and honking.

“As the geese fled toward certain disaster on Sierra Highway, the deputies gave chase,” according to Deeley’s account of the incident, the only one available since the two deputies were at home sleeping Monday.

“Relying on their ‘geese expertise,’ they were able to round up the fleeing fowl,” Deeley said.

Neither of the deputies and none of the geese were injured.

The gaggle was taken to Town and Country Farm School, a Newhall day-care center that cares for a llama, sheep and chickens as well as children.

School assistant Sue Schlander reported the geese in good condition--waiting for deputies to track down their owner.