Maybe it’s just the luck of the draw, but in the crime shows I’m watching these days, whenever a corpse has been mysteriously eaten, moved, mutilated, or otherwise disturbed, the preliminary analysis always concludes that the mysterious eating, moving, mutilating, etc. was done “presumably by coyotes,” who apparently range from Central Park West to Jerry’s Java Shack, just south of the San Bernadino Freeway. Yet, remarkably, by the second commercial it invariably becomes clear that the coyotes in question were of the two-legged variety.
So the next time you see a corpse that has been mysteriously eaten, moved, mutilated, or otherwise disturbed, please abstain from a rush to judgment. It probably wasn’t a coyote. At least, not one with four legs.
