Coyote Defies All Odds After Being Hit On Alberta Highway
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Georgie Knox of Airdrie, Canada was routinely driving to work when a coyote flashed in front of her vehicle, leaving her no time to brake or swerve before hitting it.
“I heard a crunch and believed I ran over and killed it,” she writes on Facebook. Knox continued driving and claimed she found out the animal’s fate only about 20 miles later: “Upon stopping at a traffic light by my work, a construction woman notified me that there was, in fact, a coyote still embedded in my car. When I got out to look, this poor little guy was looking up and blinking at me.”
Knox notified Alberta Fish and Wildlife Enforcement and they sent a team to help the trapped animal. After a biologist made sure he was healthy, Knox said officers released him in Kananaskis, a park system west of Calgary. Maybe the adventures of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner were actually a documentary?
A coyote wandering around Airdrie, Canada ended up on his way to Calgary after getting hit by a car on Highway 2
The driver posted this unbelievable story on Facebook, and it soon went viral
And although some people were glad the coyote survived
Others believed Knox could have stopped sooner
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The fucking people who "believed she could have stopped sooner". I mean, sure, check if you hit something, that's an alright thing to say, but why are they such assholes about it!? Especially the lady who called the car a "plastic Jap yoke" like you did NOT have to throw in that random racism. (But don't even get me started on the person who was positive but said "God is good". Like, oh, God was looking away for a second while the coyote got hit but he made sure it got hit the right way! Feck off.)
Thank you!
This exact thing happened to me, but with a pigeon. It flew in front of me, I couldn't stop in time and felt the impact. When I got out to check, it had punched a hole in my plastic grating. It poked its head out, wriggled out of the hole, ruffled its feathers, walked away and then flew off! Leaving me looking extremely perplexed next to my car.
At least you stopped right afterwards to check on the animal after the impact. Unlike the human in the above story :-/
You can't stop on the motorway unless you absolutely have to, or if you have a death wish.
Exactly Nyree. I experience the situation with a crow (saddly it wasn't as lucky as this coyote). Couldn't stop before the next rest area 25km later. I wouldn't have risk my kids life (and the other users' ) by stopping on the emergency stop strip. We don't know the circonstances and place of the accident so, maybe she could have stop (if that so, she's not really empathic), maybe she couldn't...
She should've stopped. Right after she heard those crunched sound.
You do realise that on highways and such, you really can't stop unless absolute emergency. So unless she wanted to die or get others killed, and had half a sensible mind, she did right to not stop.
You do realize that highways frequently have sidepaths for cars to stop on emergencies.
She said it was early in the morning, she didn't say it was on a highway, decent people would pull over and stop. Have you taken your meds today? You sound a little hysterical.
The fucking people who "believed she could have stopped sooner". I mean, sure, check if you hit something, that's an alright thing to say, but why are they such assholes about it!? Especially the lady who called the car a "plastic Jap yoke" like you did NOT have to throw in that random racism. (But don't even get me started on the person who was positive but said "God is good". Like, oh, God was looking away for a second while the coyote got hit but he made sure it got hit the right way! Feck off.)
Thank you!
This exact thing happened to me, but with a pigeon. It flew in front of me, I couldn't stop in time and felt the impact. When I got out to check, it had punched a hole in my plastic grating. It poked its head out, wriggled out of the hole, ruffled its feathers, walked away and then flew off! Leaving me looking extremely perplexed next to my car.
At least you stopped right afterwards to check on the animal after the impact. Unlike the human in the above story :-/
You can't stop on the motorway unless you absolutely have to, or if you have a death wish.
Exactly Nyree. I experience the situation with a crow (saddly it wasn't as lucky as this coyote). Couldn't stop before the next rest area 25km later. I wouldn't have risk my kids life (and the other users' ) by stopping on the emergency stop strip. We don't know the circonstances and place of the accident so, maybe she could have stop (if that so, she's not really empathic), maybe she couldn't...
She should've stopped. Right after she heard those crunched sound.
You do realise that on highways and such, you really can't stop unless absolute emergency. So unless she wanted to die or get others killed, and had half a sensible mind, she did right to not stop.
You do realize that highways frequently have sidepaths for cars to stop on emergencies.
She said it was early in the morning, she didn't say it was on a highway, decent people would pull over and stop. Have you taken your meds today? You sound a little hysterical.