Wily Coyote Survives Wild Ride-Animal Struck By Car, Gets Trapped Behind Grill

[The Straight Story]

Wily Coyote Survives Wild Ride
Animal Struck By Car, Gets Trapped Behind Grill


PENN VALLEY, Calif. -- A coyote struck by a fast-moving car near the Nevada-Utah border apparently got trapped by the vehicle's grill and rode for several hours all the way west to the foothills east of Sacramento.

Daniel East and his sister, Tevyn, were travelling at about 75 mph along Interstate 80 when they saw some coyotes running nearby. One of the coyotes ran in front of the car.

"Right off the bat, we knew it was bad," Daniel East told reporters with Sacramento news station KCRA.

They said they kept driving because they thought they had killed the animal, so there was no point in stopping. They were on their way to start to new chapter in their lives, to be in a community of artists and farmers in North San Juan, just outside Nevada City.

After they arrived -- eight to 10 hours later -- they found the trapped animal and called Penn Valley-based Wildlife Rehabilitation and Release.

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[sinkingfeeling]

1. Good for the coyote. The people couldn't be bothered with stopping to see if they had

killed it or left it to suffer on the highway.

[left coaster]

3. Yes, I couldn't help but think that too..

"They were on their way to start a new chapter in their lives.." One devoid of conscience, apparently.

[Toasterlad]

5. What Would You Suggest They Have Done If It Had Been Alive In the Road?

Finished it off by running over it again a few times?

If I hit a wild, possibly rabid, animal, I'm not going to stop and bandage it.

[VMI Dem]

6. Shoot it.

[Toasterlad]

7. And If They Had No Guns?

[niyad]

13. well, if the animal were alive, they could have called for humane society, or DOW or something.

you know, cell phones and all.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. No, of course not.

By all means you should leave it in the road to suffer until it dies from its wounds.

I ran over a rabbit once in the middle of nowhere. I turned around to see if it may had escaped unscathed or if I'd really hurt it. Yeah, I'd hurt it really bad, but it wasn't dead...just dying in horrible pain. I did run over it again and then I got out to make sure it wasn't suffering anymore. Then I proceeded to cry all the way back to civilization. I may have felt horrible, but at least I had the strength to not leave the poor animal with it's insides leaking on the pavement suffering while I turned a blind eye and deluded myself into believing it was "fine."

Sometimes responsibility really sucks.

[KansDem]

2. Hence, the origin of...

[Toasterlad]

4. SUper GENius.

Was the car made by Acme? That would be pretty funny.

[Blue Diadem]

8. Make sure to check out the video at the tab on the top of the story.

Amazing that grill was so flexible that it could fit in there. Just amazing. Poor coyote but I guess it was better to be wedged inside the grill, otherwise he probably would have been run over after they hit him.

[damntexdem]

9. Beep, beep.

Saw it on Rachel last night.

[amborin]

10. insensitive louts couldn't bother to stop! really inhumane!

[Beaverhausen]

11. I know- that poor thing was stuck in there for 8 hours

[niyad]

12. they couldn't be bothered to actually stop and see if the animal was dead or injured? what jerks.

I stop if I feel a bump--let alone if I knew I actually hit something.

such compassion for living beings these two display