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Prison Break Villain Plays Hero While Rescuing Injured Canada Goose In Vancouver

The Canadian Press, 05 Aug, 2016 11:27 AM

VANCOUVER — An American actor who played a psychopathic villain in the television drama Prison Break has a soft spot for Vancouver and a love of Canadians — especially the geese.

Robert Knepper was in Vancouver recently to shoot a revival of the Prison Break series that ran on FOX from 2005 to 2009. In a post on his Instagram page, the 57-year-old describes how he saved one of Vancouver's feathered inhabitants.

Knepper says he and his wife were returning from dinner after "saying goodbye for awhile to one of our favourite cities," when they saw a Canada goose clipped by a car at a busy intersection.

The actor, who is reprising his role as the evil "T-Bag" Bagwell, says they pulled over and with the help of loaned gloves from a transit supervisor and a box provided by a nearby restaurant, scooped up the injured bird and took it to an animal shelter.

Knepper placed his own hoodie over the goose to keep it from struggling and says when the jacket was returned it wasn't full of goose droppings as he expected, but instead contained a single feather.

Sometimes Life reminds us what a beautiful feeling it is to care about others. Saying goodbye for awhile to one of our favorite cities, my wife and I were driving home from a great dinner at #SavioVolpe. Near the corner of Main and Terminal we saw a lone Canadian goose all by its lonesome in a little grassy area in front of a Macdonald's, thinking to itself, "WTF? I'm in the middle of the #!%? city, away from my home!" The goose tried to take flight but couldn't quite clear the top of an oncoming car and was clipped underneath. He/she fell to the street and hobbled back to the Macdonald's flower bed. Without hesitation, the son of a veterinarian and his wife--a "lover of all creatures great and small" pulled a "U-ie" at the next light and then careened into the Macdonald's parking lot. Suddenly, humanity came together to help this poor goose. A true gentleman named Chris Berg, who is a transit supervisor for Vancouver's Coast Mountain Bus Company, gave us a pair of gloves to protect our hands for the catch. My wife ran into Macdonald's for a box big enough to fit the goose. They were eager and wanting to help. Chris, Nadine and I corralled the bird. Nadine caught it. I threw my hoodie over the goose. We put the goose in the box and drove it to the nearest emergency animal clinic (information supplied by a caring dispatcher at Vancouver BCSPCA). We were assured they would transport the goose to WRA (Wildlife Rescue Association). One of the nurses at the emergency clinic took the taped box with the shocked bird into a back examining room and brought back my hoodie. When we returned to our hotel, I shook out my hoodie, expecting a load of goose poop. Instead, one lone goose feather fell softly to the ground. I'd like to think it was a sign from the goose saying, "Hey, thanks for taking the time to help out some body who took a wrong turn." Thanks to all who helped out tonight.

A photo posted by Robert Knepper (@robert_knepperofficial) on Aug 2, 2016 at 10:29pm PDT

In his post, Knepper says he took that as a sign of goodwill from the injured bird.

"Hey, thanks for taking the time to help out somebody who took a wrong turn," Knepper writes, as he imagines what the dazed goose might have been thinking.

The Ohio actor, whose Prison Break character has few good outcomes in the TV series, also extends his own thanks to the transit supervisor, the British Columbia SPCA dispatcher and staff at the animal hospital for supporting roles in the happy ending.

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