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Pity Warren Zevon's dead

But then, "Coyotes of New York" doesn't quite have the same *oomph*.

Meh, we've had these guys in our parks for years:

A wily coyote led sharpshooters armed with tranquilizer guns on a two-day chase through Central Park before it was finally captured Wednesday morning.

At one point, the searchers had the coyote cornered near the park's ice rink, but the clever creature jumped into the water, ducked under a bridge, then scampered through the rink grounds and ran off.

The coyote was captured somewhere north of that area, Parks Department spokesman Ashe Reardon said.

The hunt had been on since Tuesday afternoon when Parks Commissioner
Adrian Benepe, among others, spotted the animal in the southeast corner of the park, not far from the tony Upper East Side. People had reported seeing it in the area since early Sunday.

I'd have left him there. NYC's kind of lost that sense of danger ever since Giuliani killed moved the homeless and Times Square became Disneyland North. Besides, what's a few chihuahuas when they're helping control the rat population?

The coyote, nicknamed Hal by Parks Department staffers, may have wandered into the city from Westchester County, perhaps swimming across a river, Benepe said. Another coyote found its way to Central Park in 1999 and is now kept in the Queens Zoo.

That's one possibility (and would've been a great tangent if the X-Men had a team member named "Coyote"), but if Albert Finney shows up you can all kiss your asses goodbye.