Posted on 01/21/2007 6:25:42 PM PST by Dallas59
Police Warn Residents To Keep Children And Pets Indoors Image
Hazel Sanchez Reporting
NORWOOD, N.J. A pack of wild coyotes on the loose in a New Jersey town has police on alert and residents staying indoors. The Norwood Police Department has issued a reverse 911 call to residents to warn them of the danger.
Norwood resident Liz Murray tells CBS 2 her children were playing outside when she noticed the animals on the prowl. "The kids were in the backyard a few days ago, and I was sitting on the deck watching them and there were three coyotes watching my kids," she said.
Murray says she's afraid to leave her children outside alone now for fear the coyotes could attack. Investigators believe the animals live in a wooded area just beyond the Murray's playground and say there may be as many as seven of them.
One of Murray's children, Joseph, says he can hear the coyotes howling at night. "Sometimes it's like they're in our backyard, but sometimes it feels like they're a mile away," he said. "It feels sort of scary."
Police say the coyotes recently killed an 8-month-old bichon frise that lived a few houses away from the Murray's. They're now telling residents to keep their children and their pets indoors.
"They seem to be getting more aggressive as our deer population and our coyote population are growing. This is actually the first sign of aggression we've seen in regards to the coyotes, so hopefully we can get some help by the state and county to control it," Norwood Mayor James Barsa says.
Police now plan to increase patrols in the neighborhood and say they'll issue more reverse 911 calls to residents to spread the warning.
For now, Liz Murray admits she's living with a bit of fear.
"It's frightening in that we shouldn't have to worry about the safety of our children in our own backyard," she says. "It should not be, so hopefully something will be done about it."
Coyotes occassionaly make an appearance in the Bronx, so why should we be surprised?
BTW: In my part of NJ, I have swerved to avoid deer, opposum, and a wild turkey, but never a coyote (yet).
Must be Glo-bull Warming.
Not in Jersey. The ruling class has removed firearms from the hands of their subjects.
That's because we shoot them on sight.
Too bad New Jersey can't do likewise.
Oh. Thats' right. NJ pushes gun control. Like the police and/or sheriff can handle it....
Me too. I hear them howling every night and during day just pop 'em with my rifle.
I was more than glad it was sprinting at a low angle, because if I'd have caught it at high stride it might have gone thru the windshield.
Big "whew"...
Next morning, come daylight, I checked - no harm, no foul; we'd met smack middle on the bumper - no dents, just a bunch of greyish fur all along the undercarriage of the Camry.
But, but, but don't you know they were here first, and we moved into their territory ... and other kooky nonsense in the most densely (human) populated and industrialized state in the nation.
There are .223 ways to deal with coyotes.
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Ooops...it's NJ -- that's the problem! I have read that you can go to jail for owning a single hollowpoint bullet in NJ...
Guess they will just have to whack the coyotes with tennis balls -- or something...
"They seem to be getting more aggressive as our deer population and our coyote population are growing.
Wait for the Cougars - thy're on the way too.
And imbicilic New Jersey politicians will eventhen kow-tow to PETA, Friends of Animals, Walt Disney Productions, and morons from New York City who think all animals talk like in cartoons, and not permit any hunting of them.
New Jersey - Sheeple of the world.
Of course, in Nazi Jersey, the perp must be charging at you with a knife or firearm in order to use deadly force.
I never hit a coyote with my car. I've hit sparrows, pigeons, egrets, dove, quail, rabbits, lizards, snakes, dogs, and cats, but no coyotes...yet.
Lunch? A bichon frise? You mean H'orderve.
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