The Coyote Principal
The Coyote Principle
CALIFORNIA
* The Governor of California is
jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor.
* The Governor starts to intervene,
but reflects upon the movie "Bambi" and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.
* He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
* He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it
for diseases.
* The Governor goes to hospital and
spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
* The running trail gets shut down
for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals.
* The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote awareness program" for residents of the area.
* The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to
permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
* The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training for the nature of coyotes.
* PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state.
TEXAS
* The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.
* The Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
* The buzzards eat the dead coyote. And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.
CALIFORNIA
* The Governor of California is
jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor's dog, then bites the Governor.
* The Governor starts to intervene,
but reflects upon the movie "Bambi" and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.
* He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
* He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it
for diseases.
* The Governor goes to hospital and
spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.
* The running trail gets shut down
for 6 months while Fish & Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals.
* The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a "coyote awareness program" for residents of the area.
* The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to
permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.
* The Governor's security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training for the nature of coyotes.
* PETA protests the coyote's relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state.
TEXAS
* The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.
* The Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
* The buzzards eat the dead coyote. And that, my friends, is why California is broke and Texas is not.
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And in 40 years spent with much camping as a geologist in the back country of Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Wyoming I have never had a problem with them. I have lain there in a sleeping bag on the ground or on a cot without a tent and they completely surround the campsite with their yipping etc., No problem.
Now here in the high desert, water can be scarce, although northern Elko County is relatively blessed. The talk and concern is of wolves coming down from Idaho and NW Wyoming now. Moose are being driven down here further south with some of this pressure. Bizarre to see moose in the desert, but it is happening.
Of course, Fish and Wildlife and NDOW totally deny wolf sightings, but you know how they are.
One dusky evening I was working the gate at a Mercedes plant when I found myself pointing and saying, "Now that's one big coyote out there."
I saw it for the space of 5 seconds.
That Mercedes plant is halfway between Birmingham and Tuscaloosa.
That coyote turned out to be next to nothing compared to another seen in the woods right up against Birmingham..
A couple of years later I was working a night shift at the gate of a Wachovia data center. I found myself gawking at a HUGE coyote that came walking right down a hill's drive and right up to my post where I was safe behind supposedly bullet proof windows and a locked door I was not about to open.
We stared at each other for a moment. I'll never forget that wild predatory look in its eyes. The big fella finally got bored and disappeared into the woods by the fence that surrounded the complex.
I was armed but to shoot it (even though a coyote is so-called "trash animal") would have cost me my job. I've read that anyone can shoot coyotes anytime of the year outside of city limits and especially east of the Mississippi River.
When I was a kid, Alabama did not have armadillos either.
The issue is as disgusting as it is tragic.
I have a young daughter and this happened less than 5 miles form my home. This is why I never let my kids walk to the part alone (less than 1/3 mile from my home) and only bike ride in groups.
An empty house here is a potential haven for these degenerates (the coyotes) and a living hell for the people illegally entering this country using these bastards. There are many vacant houses in my neighborhood, 4 on my block alone.
I want the wall. I want the national guard patrolling the border. I want ZERO hospitality and assistance to any illegal alien from anywhere.
Unacceptable.
Not welcome.