April 4, 2007

• So a coyote walks into a Quiznos . . .
  

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  Sounds like the start of a joke, but it’s not — although dozens of downtown Chicago folks got a good laugh out of it Tuesday.

  Taco Bell has it’s Chihuahua but Quiznos has it’s coyote.

  A male coyote really did wander into the Quiznos sandwich shop at Wabash and Adams — in the Loop! — just before 2 p.m., April 3rd. Workers had propped open the front door for the warm afternoon, and in sauntered the roughly 30-pound, 18-month-old wild animal.

  “He probably smelled our prime rib,” observed the shop’s manager.

  The coyote tried to nose his way past a small, swinging door that leads behind the counter, but a worker held his leg against the door.  The coyote then tried to jump over the counter, but he didn’t make it. The coyote found a seat on top of a stack of Diet Pepsi in an open cooler and settled in until an Animal Control worker arrived about 45 minutes later and safely removed him.

  There were four customers in the shop when the coyote wandered in. Two left, but two stuck around to finish their chicken sandwiches until a police officer shooed them away. The officer didn’t have far to go; he was at the Dunkin’ Donuts next door.

  
  When Animal Control Officer Taurus Drake arrived, he calmly walked in, put a catchpole around the coyote’s neck and walked the thrashing animal to his van.

  The coyote was taken to the city’s Animal Control facility for an exam. He will be released at the Flint Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation refuge in Barrington, Illinois.

  I wonder, is there a Quiznos in Barrington?  Maybe this guy will have to settle for a Subway sub in the suburbs.
   
    
  

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