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Coyote survives 75 mph collision with car
NYDailyNews ^ | October 26th 2009 | Ethan Sacks

Posted on 10/28/2009 7:46:39 AM PDT by kingattax

Meet the world's toughest coyote.

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.

But it did manage to survive being dragged for 600 miles.

"Immediately I saw a ton of fur and said, 'Sis, don't look, this is bad,'" David East told the photo agency.

When the coyote started moving, however East realized the animal had survived - and was trapped between the front grill and the radiator of their car.

A local animal control expert was called to the scene and managed to extricate the coyote - which had survived its ordeal with only a few scrapes on its paw.

The animal, named Tricky and moved to a kennel at the rescue worker's home to recuperate, later escaped by wriggling under the bars of its cage, reported Rex Features.

"We named it Tricky for a reason," Daniel East said.

A coyote dubbed 'Tricky' peers out of the gap between a car's radiator and grill after being hit and trapped for eight hours...


TOPICS: Pets/Animals
KEYWORDS: coyote; wileecoyote
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To: kingattax

http://dailycoyote.net/


21 posted on 10/28/2009 8:35:45 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("When France chides you for appeasement, you know you're scraping bottom." --Charles Krauthammer)
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To: kingattax

This isn’t that strange. I saw a coyote on TV show get hit by a truck, had giant rocks fall on it, fall off a cliff, and it still lived.... BEEP BEEP!!!


22 posted on 10/28/2009 8:45:44 AM PDT by skully (Sorry I didn't know Marxism was a race!!)
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23 posted on 10/28/2009 8:48:51 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: skully

bttt


24 posted on 10/28/2009 8:48:56 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55
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To: kingattax
Getting hit by a car? That's NOTHING! I know of a certain coyote that's been repeatedly blown up by malfunctioning ACME products, had anvils dropped repeatedly on his head, and fallen off of cliffs multiple times!

This critter is nothing but a wimpy crybaby!

Mark

25 posted on 10/28/2009 9:02:28 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: trisham

Can Uncle Sam borrow that sign??


26 posted on 10/28/2009 9:03:47 AM PDT by skully (Sorry I didn't know Marxism was a race!!)
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To: Tallguy

Is it dead?

It looks kind of thirsty.


27 posted on 10/28/2009 9:15:48 AM PDT by Bartholomew Roberts
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To: kingattax


28 posted on 10/28/2009 9:20:18 AM PDT by Daffynition (What's all this about hellfire and Dalmatians?)
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only after 23 replies.
FR is gettin' slow.

29 posted on 10/28/2009 9:23:20 AM PDT by skinkinthegrass (Zer0 to the voter: "Welcome to 'MY' DeathCARE ® Plan"...Sucker! ...now just die. :^)
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To: diamond6

This is a good article. We were looking for places to go coyote hunting in West Utah. Guess we know where to start.


30 posted on 10/28/2009 9:35:13 AM PDT by Skenderbej
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To: aw93472

I hit a rabbit once while driving with my sister. We just figured, oh well. When we stopped for gas, the thing had actually ran straight into my 5-spoke wheels and shredded bunny was all over the side of the car, fur and all. Pretty amazing.


31 posted on 10/28/2009 9:41:17 AM PDT by Skenderbej
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To: Daffynition

Reminds me of a friend of mine who was traveling with a factory rep on business. My friend came over a rise in the road and surprised a rather large vulture/buzzard feeding on a dead animal carcass. The large bird couldn’t get into the air before his Chevy clipped him. Didn’t kill the bird, but instead it got tangled in his grille.

Picture a p-o’ed vulture snapping at 2 guys trying to decide which one is going to attempt to dis-entagle the bird!


32 posted on 10/28/2009 12:48:56 PM PDT by Tallguy ("The sh- t's chess, it ain't checkers!" -- Alonzo (Denzel Washington) in "Training Day")
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