Clickbait Weekend Open Thread: Will Monday’s Eclipse Mean Marauding Coyotes?

Screenshot of graphic from TheVerge.com, your best source for OC’s Eclipse-Marauding Coyote News, showing duration and time and extent of maximum eclipse on Monday 8/21. https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/20/16175776/total-solar-eclipse-2017-what-time-is-it. Remember: don’t look at the sun during the eclipse, as it would keep you from watching for marauding coyotes!

You surely already know about Monday morning’s eclipse, but did you know about the coyote warning? No, you probably did not! And is this a cheap clickbait tactic to get you to read the coyote warning by tying it to the eclipse? Yes, it probably is! Let’s go to a recent press release from the Fullerton Police Department:

We have received reports from residents who have had recent sightings and contact with Coyotes here in Fullerton.

Here are some tips, taken from The Humane Society, on how to deal with coyotes if you encounter them:

•Stand tall, yell “go away” (or something else loud) and wave arms while approaching the coyote.

•Use a whistle, air horn, bell or other device. Bang pots or pans together. Stomp your feet.

•Toss sticks, small rocks, cans or rubber balls.

•Use a water hose, pepper spray, bear repellant, walking stick, water guns filled with vinegar water or spray bottles with vinegar water.

•Continue to yell at the coyote until it leaves the area, even if it runs off and stops.

•NEVER RUN FROM A COYOTE.

For more information visit www.humanesociety.org/animals/coyotes

Or contact OC Animal Care at 714-935-6848

The diminishing of sunlight during an eclipse may trick animals such as birds into thinking that it is dusk, and it stands to reason — certain kinds of reason*, anyway — that the same may happen for coyotes. And dusk, of course, is when coyotes start marauding. (Note: this doesn’t mean that you should kill them; it does mean that you should keep pets and unaccompanied small children where they will seem less appetizing.)

This is yet another reason that you should not look directly into the sun during an eclipse: you don’t want a coyote to get the jump on you! It is also a reason why you should never leave the house without a pot and pan — but unlike “not staring into the sun” that advice is optional.

*Note to idiot anonymous commenters: this is merely self-deprecating humor. Try it sometime.

This is your belated Weekend Open Thread. Talk about the eclipse, the coyotal menace, or whatever else you’d like within reasonable bounds of discretion, decorum, and visual protection. Sorry that we’ve been under the weather; this blog will resume to its customary publishing schedule in the due course of time — a phrase that is, of course, pretty meaningless. More on that in the due course of time.

About Greg Diamond

Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that. Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too. He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.) His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)

BigBoxofRedWhine

Posted August 20, 2017 at 2:59 PM

If you otherwise missed the news, both Jerry Lewis and Dick Gregory passed away this weekend. With all the multiple impending self-inflicted sh*tstorms here on earth, perhaps even the Almighty needed some diversionary humor – or is it “comedians week” ?


Greg Diamond

Posted August 21, 2017 at 9:25 AM

And how do you think one can perform comedy before an omniscient audience that knows what’s coming?
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  Ron & Anna Winship
  
  Posted August 23, 2017 at 11:26 AM
  
  *Dick Gregory….got it…..NO Diet Coke…..No Soy Lecithin and no Hostess Ding Dongs….
  
  Jerry Lewis….of course was the greatest Grandstander of All Time. He never appeared with Mohammed Ali or Donald Trump however.

Greg Diamond

Posted August 20, 2017 at 11:05 PM

Were the Nazis “socialist”? Well, it’s complicated…

Wait a minute, no it isn’t: NO, they weren’t!

https://www.indy100.com/article/nazi-socialist-right-wing-white-supremacists-history-twitter-mikestuchbery-7900001?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100

Ron & Anna Winship

Posted August 23, 2017 at 11:22 AM

“So, why did the SUN decide not to go to college? He already had a million degrees!”

The total eclipse of the sun brought back memories of Carly Simon and “You’re so vain!” It made you realize when newly elected President Bill Clinton when he went to the NCAA Basketball Championships he really wasn’t “Grand Standing” as much as the Thumpster and his wife did, as they just tried to take away the stellar moment from the people of Planet Earth. “Keep looking at the sun without the solar shield glasses…eh?” Teach our children well……is probably the message they wanted to convey!

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Clickbait Weekend Open Thread: Will Monday’s Eclipse Mean Marauding Coyotes?

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