Boy Fends Off Coyote With Snowboard

(CBS)  A quick-thinking nine-year-old Colorado boy fought off a coyote using his snowboard.

Tony Sandlin was snowboarding with his six-year-old brother, Vincent, at a local golf course behind their home in Erie, Colo., east of Boulder, when they the coyote approached, circling Tony, then biting him on his right arm.

Tony was able to stop the attack by whacking the coyote on the side of the face with his snowboard.

He's currently going through a series of rabies shots, which are very painful.

Tony, his mother, Stacey, and Vincent, spoke with Early Show co-anchor Harry Smith Monday:


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[rrozsa-2009]

Re the "coyotes don''t attack humans because they are afraid of them" argument -- even squirrels will attack a human if it is RABID. Duh. In fact, that is one of the warning signs of rabies -- animals suddenly becoming unafraid of and aggressive towards humans. Sheesh.

[rrozsa-2009]

to gumpydog -- Very funny post! Thank you for putting everything back into the right perspective.

[billybones01]

truthrocks..that was 10 minutes of google research.
I let experts speak for themselves...but clearly coyote''s do in fact attack humans, despite the mewling protestations to the contrary.

[billybones01]

Ampsanne, If you do a little research, there are more reported coyote atttacks reported in the USA per year than there are wolf attacks. Between 1998-2003 there were 48 reported attacks by coyotes in California alone according to http://repositories.cdlib.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=anrrec/hrec
The report, research published by University of California, Davis...illustrates that the people here saying coyotes don''t attack people are absolutely full of bovine feces. In that same period, there weren''t that many wolf attacks on humans in the whole of the United States. I so love when people who clearly are ignorant spout off like they are experts.

[rf35]

This was more likely a stray dog that attacked the boy. Coyotes tend to avoid humans, their primary predators.
As for wolves, coyote populations were kept in check by wolves. It wasn''t until humans started trying to drive wolves to extinction that the coyote population exploded and spread. Wolves both preyed upon and competed with coyotes. Also, it would take a supreme idiot to confuse a wolf with a coyote.

[billybones01]

"If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies'' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers." -- Edward Abbey
Remrafdn, one can only hope that truthrocks lives in grizzly territory.

[truthrocks]

remrafdn said "truthrocks aka spamlord: I have chosen not to respond to your scurrilous slanders and impotent insults."

But you did respond and with your scurrilous slanders and impotent insults!~

Then he said "They expose your SHORTcomings and lunacy better than I can."

Nothing expose your shortcomings more than your replies to my posts. My posts are filled with accurate data about gun violence. Your replies are moronic attacks on me. You attack the messenger because you got nothing against the message. The message rocks. Therefore, the messenger rocks too!~

[truthrocks]

remrafdn said "I have been listening to country, pop, and rock%u2019n''roll since we got electricity on the farm in 1948."

"LOL" No wonder he is such a loser. His first date was probably a cow!~ "LOL"

[gumpydog]

You people are hilarious! This poor kid looks like a Road Runner to a starving Wile. E. and some jackass condems guns. Another idiot liberal blames the attack on Republicans for cutting down the trees (I bet this person lives in a wood house, too. Probably made in China.). One more brainless fool, probably from NYC, says it''s all a hoax because coyotes (pronounced ki-yoh-tee by those who don''t know any better) don''t attack humans (tell that to the kid who''s undergoing rabies shots). And there there''s the one who says coyotes don''t attack humans; wolves do (funny, I don''t think there''s ever been a reported wolf attack in the history of the United States). And wolves are not too common around Boulder, though they are known to be in CO thanks to the idiots who reintroduced them to Yellowstone with no plan for controlling them.

Personally, I think the animals are starting their revolt against humans. We''ve known for a long time they intend to take back their environment, and move into our cushy houses. We''ll all be pressed into slavery to serve them! The coyote was the scout. The rabbits and squirrels are next! I''m heading to the store to stock up on ammo and snowboards!

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!

[toolmangler-2009]

That kid should let gun owners borrow a little bit of courage from him so they could face dangers without guns!~ After all, most of the times they use their guns they use them against unarmed criminals or unarmed coyotes!~ "LOL", 2008
Posted by axomomma at 02:50 PM : Dec 08, 2008




maybe if the kid had a gun and shot the animal he would not have been bitten. Or if the neighbors were armed, the Coyote would have been killed before it could attack. Never know do you???