{"id":9046,"date":"2015-08-12T20:32:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/12\/the-coyote-principle\/"},"modified":"2015-08-12T20:32:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T20:32:24","slug":"the-coyote-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2015\/08\/12\/the-coyote-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Coyote Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nCALIFORNIA<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor&#8217;s dog, then bites the Governor.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie &quot;Bambi&quot; and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing what is natural.<\/p>\n<p>\tHe calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.<\/p>\n<p>\tHe calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills the State $200 testing it for diseases.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite wound bandaged.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish &amp; Game conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free of dangerous animals.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a &quot;coyote awareness program&quot; for residents of the area.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the disease throughout the world.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Governor&#8217;s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack. The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with additional special training for the nature of coyotes.<\/p>\n<p>\tPETA protests the coyote&#8217;s relocation and files a $5 million suit against the state.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTEXAS<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe buzzards eat the dead coyote.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd that, my friends,<\/p>\n<p>\tis why California   is broke and Texas is not.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Mr Finesse on August 14, 2015, 6:44 pm<\/p>\n<div>So True isn&#8217;t it.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"migrated-reply\" style=\"border: 1px solid #eee;padding: 15px;margin-bottom: 15px;border-radius: 5px\">\n<p><strong>Posted by:<\/strong> Dr Crapology on August 15, 2015, 11:36 am<\/p>\n<div>The part about the Texas Governor is pretty near true.  He is running for President, although He probably won&#8217;t get the Republican nomination.  <\/p>\n<p>\tDoc<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALIFORNIA The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail. A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor&#8217;s dog, then bites the Governor. The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie &quot;Bambi&quot; and then&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-we-live-in"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}