SKATEBOARDER GETS GOOSEDWINNEPEG, Canada -- If only Shawn Hacking hadn't forgotten to duck, he might never have been goosed.The 13-year-old was knocked off his skateboard after a Canada goose heading for a nearby pond misjudged its landing and slammed into his face. "I was stunned," said Shawn, who hobbled home with two badly scraped knees, a sprained wrist, a ripped shirt and a red face where the bird's wing slapped him. "It was so funny, but I felt sorry for him at the same time," recalled Shawn's skateboarding buddy Brent Bruchanski. "It flew out of nowhere and then . . . Wham bam!" The goose just kept going, added the boys. When he got home, Shawn's mother Kim Hacking was a little horrified at first with how badly he had been roughed up. "When he came in, he said, 'I got hit by a goose,'" she said. "I thought that was some kind of car or something." |