Posted on 10/26/2009 6:16:18 PM PDT by GSP.FAN
Daniel East and his sister, Tevyn, were driving at night along Interstate 80 near the Nevada-Utah earlier this month, when their car slammed into a coyote that scurried in their path, reported Rex Features.
Believing there was no way the wild animal could survive the 75 mph collision, the pair kept driving for eight more hours to their destination, where they finally inspected the damage to their car.
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Then what happened, is what I want to know ? You don’t just gently lift an injured coyote out of your engine compartment I’m guessing...
Coyotes are tough little buggers from what I understand and from what is obvious from this picture! I remember once reading the NY Daily News years ago one ended up being found out on Long Island for cryin’ out loud! Don’t know how it got out there. If you know anything about NY, traffic on the LIE(Long Island Expressway) is murder!/sarcasm)
ROTFLMAO!!! Best line of the night!!
didn’t stop for fuel or pee car and the driver must of had a big tank
Yeah i drove the LIE and the BQE for years never seen a coyote,went to Death Valley a few years ago,coyotes waiting to be fed at the side of the road, the tourists thought it was cute to feed them.
30 seconds into this story, I’m thinking a lot of the same questions?
What is up with these morons that report this stuff. Does it not occur to them to ask these questions; the “local animal control expert”?
Local to where? Nevada? Utah? New Mexico? Arizona?
My 11 year okd could have done a better job putting this story together.
Terrible thing to say. I’m glad he didn’t die. He looks young and is beautiful.
This story has a smell to it. What small vehicle has a 600+ mile range? Another site says they were driving a Honda Fit hybrid. The Honda Fit has an 11 gallon fuel tank. At an overly generous 40mpg, that 440 miles.
We hear coyotes every single night especially when they are mating. So, they make a lot of noise. Where else are they supposed to go when humans keep invading their habitats? I love hearing them...as for the racoons...well, I’m not thrilled with them...they can be nasty.
Amen kind person...Amen.
http://dogsinthenews.com/issues/0202/articles/020215a.htm
"Are we there yet?"
After being refused airport service, traveling canine "Wiley" decided to take the Red Line train bound for downtown Portland.
(Photo: Dennis Maxwell / Port of Portland)
You’re very correct to call BS on this.
The physics don’t compute.
I remember seeing a car that had hit a duck at the GM Proving Grounds at about 80 mph and it took the carburetor clear off the top of the intake manifold.
I used to have a job that caused me to go to work at 2 am at the first of every month. I live just north of NYC. ONe night I was driving to work and saw a rather long German Shepherd crossing the road. Took me a while to figure out it was a coyote.
LOL! Looks like all the humans decided to ride in a different car!
What kind of radiator in a small car can function with a large animal blocking the air passage? Strange...
I live in CA now and i hear them howling all the time,i am surrounded by protected land.
Check out the movie Collateral,one scene the taxi is driving down the street, stops at the lights and coyotes run across in front of them in LA...
It is a Tom Cruise movie ,but it is good.
You can hunt coyotes year round in AR. They like all animals are “cute” when little. Grown up are mangy and NOT cute. They also descimate other population of animals. Such as eating turkey eggs etc. They need to be hunted.
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