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The evasive coyote
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| sensorium |
Amusing story of the day.
| quote: | March 23, 2006 - 9:26AM
A coyote led police sharpshooters armed with tranquilizer guns on a frantic chase through New York's Central Park before being captured.
At one point, authorities tried to corner the animal in the south east corner of the park, by an ice skating rink.
The clever creature jumped into the water, ducked under a bridge, then scampered through the rink grounds and ran off.
The coyote was captured somewhere north of that area, Parks Department spokesman Ashe Reardon said.
The hunt had been on since yesterday afternoon when Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe, among others, spotted the animal in the south east corner of the park, not far from the tony Upper East Side.
"It didn't look the least bit worried," he said.
"He leaped over the fence and disappeared in the park."
During a session with reporters, Mayor Michael Bloomberg quipped, "This is New York, and I would suggest the coyote may have more problems than the rest of us".
The first sightings of the animal came in the early morning hours on Sunday.
While coyotes do not usually present a threat to people, Benepe warned that park visitors should keep their dogs leashed to protect the pets.
Police officers did locate and shoot at the tawny animal as they hunted for hours yesterday, but police said the coyote escaped into a wooded area. Benepe said the captured coyote would be taken to an upstate wildlife facility.
The coyote, nicknamed Hal by Parks Department staffers, may have wandered into the city from Westchester County, perhaps swimming across a river to reach Manhattan, Benepe said. Another coyote found its way to Central Park in 1999 and now resides in the Queens Zoo.
"It's very unusual to have them in Manhattan," he said.
"They have to be particularly adventurous."
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Link = smh.com.au |
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| eROs.au |
| Would have been better if they never found it. :wtf: |
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| Lepanto |
| quote: | Originally posted by eROs.au
Would have been better if they never found it. :wtf: |
imagine it was a werewolf :wtf:! |
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| tribu |
That desert must have been this sand trap...
and that pyramid must have been the pro shop...
and that talking coyote must have been that talking dog...
Hi Homer! Find your soul mate! |
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| arcadia190 |
| si ellos hubieran dejado el coyote en el parque el coyote hubiera mordido a alguien , wich would have been cool!! |
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| sensorium |
| Coyotes can't get away from anything. Didn't you ever watch cartoons? |
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| Lepanto |
| quote: | Originally posted by arcadia190
si ellos hubieran dejado el coyote en el parque el coyote hubiera mordido a alguien , wich would have been cool!! |
ok now i figured it out. you're a renegade robot with some ed up programing that just jumps from spanish to english to nonsense to martian. |
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| arcadia190 |
| no offense lepanto but i wasnt talking to u , i was talking in spanish to sensorium |
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| Lepanto |
| quote: | Originally posted by arcadia190
no offense lepanto but i wasnt talking to u , i was talking in spanish to sensorium |
you ARE a robot lol |
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| arcadia190 |
lol
how old r u
i guess ur old cuz ur not as rude as the other ones |
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| Lepanto |
| quote: | Originally posted by arcadia190
lol
how old r u
i guess ur old cuz ur not as rude as the other ones |
lol im 19. i am second to a few others like sunsnail who is 9 and eros.au who is -10 :p |
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| eROs.au |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lepanto
lol im 19. i am second to a few others like sunsnail who is 9 and eros.au who is -10 :p |
:wtf: |
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