what happens in no hunting zones

[Emily]

from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/.....source=rss

Nanny saves child from coyote's jaws
And other strange stories of human, animal conflicts

By CLAIRE TRAGESER
P-I REPORTER

Seattle isn't the only city with aggressive animals. Strange stories from across the country have accumulated over the past few years to paint a vivid picture of the growing conflict between humans and urban wildlife.

# In April, a hawk in Boston's Fenway Park swooped on a teenage girl and scratched her scalp with his talons, causing her to bleed.

# A Florida woman was walking her dog in March when a bobcat approached, grabbed the pet in his mouth and retreated to the nearby woods. The woman has not seen her dog, a Maltese named Bogie, since.

# In November in Clintonville, Ohio, a deer stabbed a dog with his antlers in at least five places on the dog's side, chest and face. The dog, a Doberman, suffered a ruptured diaphragm and stomach, but survived.

# A black bear opened a glass sliding door to enter a woman's home in the middle of the night in Aspen, Colo., in October. When the woman heard noise in her kitchen and went to investigate, the bear clawed her in the face. Two weeks later, wildlife officers trapped and killed the bear.

# An 11-year-old boy was dragged from his family's tent and killed by a black bear last June in American Fork, Utah. The bear was found and killed by wildlife officers two days later.

# A nanny pulled a 2-year-old girl away from a coyote that had grabbed the child while she was playing in a sandbox in Chino Hills, Calif., in May. Coyotes bit three other children in the same area that month.

# Wild turkeys wander the streets of Boston, chasing joggers and small children, damaging cars with their beaks and occasionally attacking people. In 2006, a turkey jumped on the back of a woman in Brookline, Mass., and attacked her with its talons.

P-I reporter Claire Trageser can be reached at 206-448-8176 or clairetrageser@seattlepi.com.
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[tylers dad]

city people! I never knew a turkey had talons!

[Hunter]

I know me and a few of my kind that could fix all these city problems....but why... hell they are getting exactly what they want. No hunting!!!! One day they will figure out we ain't just "dumb rednecks" that don't know nuttin. You don't see us complainin about turkeys peckin on us or coyotes snatchin up our babies do ya???