Sad News
We regret to inform our readers that one of the icons of many American's childhoods has given up. Thrown in the towel. Stopped doing what he did best. We're so upset we can hardly type. But we just got the news and thought our readers should know. Wile E. Coyote has given up on chasing the Roadrunner. In fact, he's moved to Chicago and developed a taste for fast food. Specifically, toasted submarine sandwiches.
Shortly after lunchtime on Tuesday, a docile coyote nonchalantly wandered through the propped-open door of a Quiznos submarine sandwich shop in downtown Chicago.
The handful of startled customers calmly walked out of the shop, Quiznos manager Bina Patel said.
"It was kind of like a medium-sized dog," Patel said. "At first, we thought it was a dog. We don't get dogs walking in, but it's more believable than a coyote."
Officials picked up the year-old male about 2:30 p.m., an hour after it had entered the restaurant at 37 E. Adams St. in the Loop, said Anne Kent, director of Animal Care and Control.
The animal ate nothing and no on was harmed.
Coyotes are more partial to small rodents, rabbits and trash, animal control officials said.
The coyote was the second in less than a week picked up in the city. A 2-year-old male was found near 31st and Wells Streets on Friday. He was taken to the Flint Creek Rehabilitation Center in Barrington, home to all of Chicago's transplanted urban coyotes.
How can we go on knowing that Wile E. Coyote will never again use Acme products in a futile attempt to catch and eat his Nemesis? Oh the humanity.
By FireFireFire, Wednesday, 4 April , 2007 @ 11:25 am
Note to broker: Dump Acme,Buy Quiznos
By AllenS, Wednesday, 4 April , 2007 @ 4:38 pm
“The animal ate nothing…”
The damned thing was nothing but a bum. Arrest him for loitering!
By PBurns, Thursday, 5 April , 2007 @ 4:06 am
If a coyote was stopping at Quiznos, it wasn’t for the sandwitch, but for the rats in the back.
P.