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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Yahoo
Heartless Long Island driver mows down family of geese — despite pleas from good Samaritan to slow down
A fowl scene unfolded on a Long Island highway when a heartless driver slammed into a family of geese despite pleas from a good Samaritan to slow down — killing the adults and two of their goslings. The massacre on Veterans Highway in Islandia left Coleen DeLorenzo in tears. DeLorenzo, 58, was on her way to work and heading north Thursday morning when she spotted the two adult geese and their six feathery babies crossing the four-lane thoroughfare just before the Long Island Expressway. 'Everybody stopped,' the Patchogue resident told The Post. 'These geese were in a very perilous part of the road. . . . I saw them from a mile away.' She put her hazard lights on and was getting out of the car when she looked over her shoulder and saw a blue van that wasn't slowing down. 'It was a Disabled American Veterans van, and they were flying,' DeLorenzo said. 'I waved my hands, they never even looked up. They hit the entire family of geese. They obliterated them at 50, 60 miles per hour.' 'This van never even tapped the brake.' Devastated, DeLorenzo 'started running around trying to save the goslings. 'I picked up one baby that was hit, I thought maybe we could save it,' she said. 'It died in my hands.' A young couple eventually helped her gather four surviving goslings, while workers doing construction nearby stepped in and used their trucks to block traffic. 'I was sobbing, covered in blood. They came over and blocked the traffic and used tarps to cover the bodies and move them, made sure I was ok.' DeLorenzo and the couple helping her eventually made contact with Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, which took in the survivors and posted about the incident on social media. Janine Bendicksen, director of wildlife rehabilitation at the center, said the surviving Canada geese are doing fine. 'The thing is, you know when you hit and kill something. You hear it, feel it. And to just keep going?' she said. 'That is the tragedy of it all.' The center, which posted an emotional video of DeLorenzo pleading with people to slow down, takes in nearly 3,000 animals a year, 'everything from eagles, hawks, owls, foxes, you name it,' she said. The incident has left DeLorenzo shaken. 'I'm sick over it. It was such a violent act it will never go out of my head,' she said. 'That any human being could lay their head down and sleep at night after doing what they did — I feel lost.' Disabled American Veterans, the organization whose name was on the van, could not immediately be reached for comment.
New York Post
17-05-2025
- General
- New York Post
Murder so fowl: Long Island driver mows down family of geese
A fowl scene unfolded on a Long Island highway when a heartless driver slammed into a family of geese despite pleas from a good Samaritan to slow down — killing the adults and two of their goslings. The massacre on Veterans Highway in Islandia left Coleen DeLorenzo in tears. DeLorenzo, 58, was on her way to work and heading north Thursday morning when she spotted the two adult geese and their six feathery babies crossing the four-lane thoroughfare just before the Long Island Expressway. Advertisement 4 The goslings were brought to Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown. Sweetbriar Nature Center 'Everybody stopped,' the Patchogue resident told The Post. 'These geese were in a very perilous part of the road. . . . I saw them from a mile away.' She put her hazard lights on and was getting out of the car when she looked over her shoulder and saw a blue van that wasn't slowing down. Advertisement 'It was a Disabled American Veterans van, and they were flying,' DeLorenzo said. 'I waved my hands, they never even looked up. They hit the entire family of geese. They obliterated them at 50, 60 miles per hour.' 'This van never even tapped the brake.' Devastated, DeLorenzo 'started running around trying to save the goslings. 'I picked up one baby that was hit, I thought maybe we could save it,' she said. 'It died in my hands.' Advertisement 4 The van which struck the goslings' parents and two siblings 'didn't even tap its brake,' DeLorenzo said. Sweetbriar Nature Center A young couple eventually helped her gather four surviving goslings, while workers doing construction nearby stepped in and used their trucks to block traffic. 'I was sobbing, covered in blood. They came over and blocked the traffic and used tarps to cover the bodies and move them, made sure I was ok.' DeLorenzo and the couple helping her eventually made contact with Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown, which took in the survivors and posted about the incident on social media. Advertisement 4 The goslings were brought to Sweetbriar Nature Center in Smithtown. Sweetbriar Nature Center Janine Bendicksen, director of wildlife rehabilitation at the center, said the surviving Canada geese are doing fine. 'The thing is, you know when you hit and kill something. You hear it, feel it. And to just keep going?' she said. 'That is the tragedy of it all.' The center, which posted an emotional video of DeLorenzo pleading with people to slow down, takes in nearly 3,000 animals a year, 'everything from eagles, hawks, owls, foxes, you name it,' she said. 4 Coleen DeLorenzo was on her way to work when she spotted the family of geese, including six goslings, on the side of busy Veterans Highway in Islandia. Sweetbriar Nature Center The incident has left DeLorenzo shaken. 'I'm sick over it. It was such a violent act it will never go out of my head,' she said. Advertisement 'That any human being could lay their head down and sleep at night after doing what they did — I feel lost.' Disabled American Veterans, the organization whose name was on the van, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Yahoo
19-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
The First 30 Days: Trump's 5 Biggest Moves and Their Economic Impacts
President Donald Trump signed 74 executive orders, seven proclamations and 20 memoranda within the first 30 days of his inauguration, reported Scripps News. Find Out: Read Next: While these accelerated moves created a commotion in Washington, D.C. and fear in Americans, most haven't impacted the economy for the moment, according to Jason DeLorenzo, market analyst and principal and owner of Volland. 'For now Trump's policies are focused on the DOGE's activities, tariffs and immigration, but many other policies haven't had time to impact the economy directly, although they could impact geopolitics. 'These policies are causing disruption in D.C. and while the tariffs haven't had time to ripple through the economy yet, they are causing sentiment to sour.' GOBankingRates turned to DeLorenzo and Cheney Hamilton, research analyst at Bloor Research and CEO of Find Your Flex Group, for analytic insights into Trump's five biggest moves during the first 30 days of his second term and their impacts on the U.S. economy. Talk to your spouse or neighbor, and the conversation will likely become a venting session about rising grocery costs climbing higher as a result of tariffs, especially if you're retirees on a fixed income. 'If Trump's policies lean toward protectionism, like tariffs on Mexico, Canada and China, we could see a shift in offshoring trends, with companies reevaluating where and how they invest in automation as well as talent,' Cheney said. 'If businesses face higher costs for global supply chains, they may double down on AI and automation as a way to reduce reliance on human labor and cut costs; as a result, it could accelerate AI-driven job displacement in lower-skilled roles, particularly in industries like manufacturing, logistics and customer service,' Cheney said. 'At the same time, if offshore options become more expensive, companies might look to re-shore jobs, but with AI augmentation, meaning the jobs coming back won't look the same as before.' Learn More: According to Trump's rhetoric, closing federal offices and the Department of Education will save the government money, another move sparking a big reaction in Americans, DeLorenzo said. 'The plans to shut down the Department of Education have caused a major stir throughout the country, as student loan payments need to be processed somewhere, special needs programs need to be funded somewhere, and public school funding needs to be made somewhere,' DeLorenzo said. He added, 'The reaction of the country is why Trump balked at closing the department; it's something he can't do by executive order anyway,' DeLorenzo said. 'Ultimately, these acts don't have a huge impact on the economy except [in creating] fear and uncertainty among market participants.' Halting foreign aid funding has significant implications for the country. 'As far as the economy goes, it puts many out of work but also contracts our economy since USAID activities expand our exports and sales of American goods, primarily food,' DeLorenzo said. 'While USAID does have reason to be scrutinized, the blanket closing of foreign aid is a diplomatic and humanitarian mistake.' The American economy hasn't felt the impact of offshore drilling yet. However, DeLorenzo said increasing the supply of oil when the demand is shrinking could lower oil prices to $50 a barrel as long as there aren't any more wars. Eradicating birthright citizenship could have a devastating effect on the U.S. economy. 'The overall policy of deporting immigrants will create a demographic-fueled economic contraction, and eliminating birthright citizenship would contribute to that; these are people who are building a life, eating food, renting shelter and working; labor supply will decrease as will aggregate demand,' DeLorenzo said. He added that China and Japan are now facing a similar demographic crisis to what America could feel over the next few years. Editor's note on political coverage: GOBankingRates is nonpartisan and strives to cover all aspects of the economy objectively and present balanced reports on politically focused finance stories. You can find more coverage of this topic on More From GOBankingRates4 Housing Markets That Have Plummeted in Value Over the Past 5 Years This article originally appeared on The First 30 Days: Trump's 5 Biggest Moves and Their Economic Impacts Sign in to access your portfolio
