In Greek mythology, you typically have to do something really, really bad to deserve this kind of fate.
For Will Stines, it's just part of the job.
"I do this probably about three hours a day," Stines said, looking over a contraption that's part lawn mower, part street sweeper and all noise.
Stines works about six hours a day, so half his work day is spent at the controls of a riding mower turned sidewalk cleaner, removing the foul droppings left by illegal immigrant waterfowl wintering here from north of the border.
"The geese hate this thing," said Jeff Musso, Stines' boss at Don's Landscaping. But it seems like the machine is the only thing that bothers the Canada Geese these days, and not all that much.
On a Thursday morning, a few honked angrily as it pushed slowly along the Historic Arkansas Riverwalk of Pueblo, clearing the unseemly droppings from the concrete.
But no geese actually took flight. They just meandered farther away, pecking happily at the grass and readying for another round.
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