California 2-Year-Old Dragged From Yard by Coyote in Third Such Attack in Five Days

Associated Press ^ | May 07, 2008

[kingattax]

LAKE ARROWHEAD, Calif. — A coyote grabbed a 2-year-old girl by the head and tried to drag her from the front yard of her mountain home in the third incident of a coyote threatening a small child in Southern California in five days, authorities said.

The coyote attacked the girl around noon Tuesday when her mother, Melissa Rowley, went inside the home for a moment to put away a camera, the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department said in an incident report.

Rowley came out of the house and saw the coyote dragging her daughter towards a street. She ran towards her daughter, and the animal released the girl and ran away, said sheriff's spokeswoman Arden Wiltshire.

[mylife]

Even back then it wasnt worth it you had to skin em out and it was like 5 bucks a hide

[kingattax]

[kennyboy509]

It’s gonna take a few deaths to smarten up a california liberal into getting laws changed to control preditory wildlife.

10 more years and maybe the same amount of human deaths.

Liberals learning curves are pretty flat.

[CindyDawg]

She was playing in her yard. You can not keep an eye on them every second.

[ElkGroveDan]

what is DFG?

Department of Fish and Game.

[CindyDawg]

Yep. SSS

[clee1]

I’d have just considered it my civic duty and coughed up the $0.20 for a .223 round. That, and the effort to scoop the critter up and toss it in the trash.

[tsmith130]

"A dingo ate yer baby."

(sorry...couldn't resist. Seinfeld reference)

[PLMerite]

“Oh. Different coyote. Sorry.”

Well, it doesn’t actually say which type of coyote...

[vetvetdoug]

I lay the fault at the feet of the gun grabbing & controlling panty waisted pussies that think that coyotes should not be killed on sight. Coyotes will never be exterminated, they are survivors. Thinning the population will keep the children safe. Let's do it for the children. A coyote in my neighborhood knows to stay well out of sight and if it comes within 350 yards of me its a dead one.

[burroak]

What will you get if you put dishes of antifreeze around your property?

[ElkGroveDan]

That was before the fruits and nuts in Kalefornicatia became fruitier and nuttier.

That kind of statement makes you sound like an idiot. Were you trying to spell California? San Bernardino is a rock-solid conservative county, one of the most reliably conservative regions of the country.

[Alouette]

Seinfeld reference

I thought it was a Meryl Streep reference.

[NathanR]

I suspect the term would be “urban wildlife”, like possums. Then if so, it would be illegal.

[2111USMC]

Yet you’ll do 5 years in prison if you shoot one (a coyote).

Really? Around here, the only question asked is "what caliber did ya use?".

[mylife]

Here in TX they hangem on fence posts along with bobcats as a warning to their brethren

[clee1]

Probably the same 5 years... but the charge would be different.

[ktscarlett66]

My kids played outside in our yard most of the time without me watching them. Didn’t all our mothers say “GO OUTSIDE and PLAY!!!” ???

[DoughtyOne]

Sounds like it.

[NonValueAdded]

“Mom had gone inside to put away a camera.” Wanna bet that was after taking the picture of the strange looking “dog” lurking near the back yard? Situational Awareness failure!