Posted: 10/22/2013 4:45:03 PM EDT
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Huh, I somehow missed this story when it first broke:
LONGMONT -- Andrew Dickehage probably will think twice before deciding to walk to work again anytime soon.
Dickehage, 22, had been having car troubles, so at 5 a.m. Monday he was walking on North 73rd Street near Niwot Road on his way to work at CCI, on the IBM campus. That's when three coyotes attacked him. Dickehage said he was walking along and heard a twig snap. "I didn't think much of it," he said. "I thought it was probably a bunny." Dickehage said he turned on his flashlight to see what made the noise when the largest of the three animals attacked. The coyotes lunged at Dickehage, biting and scratching him has he continue along about a 70-yard stretch of road, Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said. Dickehage said the larger coyote launched at him a second time after the initial attack. That's when he "crushed its head with my flashlight." The two smaller coyotes then started to attack. Video and pics at the link. This could have ended much differently. http://www.timescall.com/longmont-local-news/ci_24322251/coyotes-attack-man-near-niwot-wildlife-officials-kill |