Suicidal Coyote

[Fox Body]

Last weekend, a coyote ran out in front of my GT.

You know when you here someone say "he just ran out in front of me, there was nothing I could do," you kinda think to yourself, "hmmm, I wonder" in a kinda unbelieving way?

Well, it actually happened to me. There was some really tall grass on the side of the hwy I was driving on and by the time I saw the stupid thing, it was like one frame flash in a movie where I saw a flash of a canine-like critter running in front of the car. 1/64th of a sec later, he had tasted the paint on my front bumper (WHAAAAAAM!). I was going about 60 mph, and he got the full impact. I didn't even have the time to get my foot on the brake. He was either possesed, or just wanted to die, he couldn't have timed it any better.

First time I've ever killed a mammal with a vehicle (well, at least to my knowledge...).

I looked in my rear view mirror a split sec after impact and saw him spinning around like a helicopter rotor.
Didn't know it was a coyote until I turned around to go make sure of what it was (some closure). I was like, "what? wait a minute, that ain't no dog, that's a ... what, fox?, no, to big to be a fox. A wolf? No, we don't have those around here. Aaaah, it's a coyote. Stupid coyote."

It smashed both my fog lights, took a little paint off the lower part of the bumper (air dam area), and broke part of the fiberglass piece that holds up the fog light on the passenger side so that the pass. fog light holder hangs about 1/4" low (but that'll be an easy fix). It's the paint (about a 3" oval-ish diameter) that's rubbed off (even though it's really not all that noticeable) that I'm annoyed about. My poor, poor GT.

Eeh, there's a lot of ways it could've been worse, or more damage, so I'm thankful that it wasn't. You know, like one of my friends pointed out, it's a good thing that it didn't come up over hood, smash through the windshield, and start biting me. Things probably turned out a lot differently then....

Well, thanks for letting me share my wack end (weekend) experience with you.