WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.560 --> 00:00:06.120 It's Night Side with Dan Ray. I'm WBS Costin's video. 2 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:09.679 Thanks very much, Dan, and welcome back everyone. We're going 3 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:13.560 to change topics here again. Hats off to the state 4 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:18.280 auditor Diana. I'm doing a great job, and I would 5 00:00:18.320 --> 00:00:21.199 suggest if you get an opportunity to read the Globe, 6 00:00:20.920 --> 00:00:25.359 read the newspaper the Herald today and understand what she found. 7 00:00:25.519 --> 00:00:28.839 And we will talk about that maybe again later on 8 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:31.280 this week. But I want to change topics, and I 9 00:00:31.320 --> 00:00:33.479 want to talk about a topic that has concerned me 10 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:37.159 for a long time, and I would hope that it 11 00:00:37.240 --> 00:00:41.359 concerns most of you, and that is the presence of coyotes. 12 00:00:41.439 --> 00:00:46.799 There's also other animals. I live not far from Brookline, 13 00:00:46.960 --> 00:00:50.479 and I saw a huge raccoon walking across the driveway 14 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:51.920 the other night, and I don't want to end up 15 00:00:51.960 --> 00:00:54.479 meeting the rocky raccoon at night. But we're delighted to 16 00:00:54.520 --> 00:00:59.799 be joined by Brookline resident Nicole Roberts, who was interviewed. 17 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:02.640 I'm not sure whether it was Channel four channel five, 18 00:01:02.679 --> 00:01:04.760 to be honest with you, Nicole, Welcome to Nightside. How 19 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:06.159 are you? Thank you for joining. 20 00:01:05.879 --> 00:01:07.599 Us, You're welcome. 21 00:01:09.040 --> 00:01:11.599 You might have been on both stations I don't know, 22 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:18.480 but you had an up close and personal visit with 23 00:01:19.040 --> 00:01:21.200 a coyotea two in Brooklyn. 24 00:01:21.280 --> 00:01:25.239 I did right near the country club across the street 25 00:01:25.879 --> 00:01:31.519 in Buttonwood Village. Yeah, I was out with my French bulldog, 26 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:33.359 so very small dog. 27 00:01:33.959 --> 00:01:36.200 What is your French bulldog's name? We want to be 28 00:01:36.200 --> 00:01:38.719 able to say that people across America heard the name 29 00:01:38.760 --> 00:01:45.239 of your I love French bulldogs. A French bulldog's name Lola, Right, Lola. 30 00:01:45.599 --> 00:01:48.519 I have a listener in San Diego named Lola. So 31 00:01:49.120 --> 00:01:52.879 if Lola san Diego was listening, we're not talking about you, 32 00:01:52.959 --> 00:01:55.280 Lola in San Diego. We're talking about Lola the French 33 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:57.680 bulldog in Brookline. So you're out for a walk at night? 34 00:01:57.760 --> 00:01:59.920 What time in night? Dusk? Are our dark at night? 35 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:04.280 It was nine o'clock and it was and I was 36 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:08.039 at my dead end street and I was gonna it's 37 00:02:08.120 --> 00:02:10.759 like a circle, and I was about to go around 38 00:02:10.800 --> 00:02:13.520 the circle and go home. All of a sudden, a 39 00:02:13.599 --> 00:02:19.120 coyote came out from someone's backyard across the street and 40 00:02:19.800 --> 00:02:23.199 was five houses up for me, went onto my lawn. 41 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:26.960 So I'm like, well, I can't go home now. And 42 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:31.800 then I just waited, and then another coyote came out 43 00:02:33.719 --> 00:02:37.639 from someone's backyard, so maybe they were coming from the 44 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:40.599 country club, so to come from larsy Anderson or the 45 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:47.080 country club. So I yelled, I screamed. A couple neighbors 46 00:02:47.639 --> 00:02:51.759 thought it was kids' children playing outside, so they didn't 47 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:54.360 come out. So I had to ring someone's doorbell, and 48 00:02:54.400 --> 00:02:55.960 I had to get one of the neighbors to walk 49 00:02:55.960 --> 00:02:59.840 me home because I'm only five feet and I was 50 00:03:00.039 --> 00:03:03.439 nervous that the coyote would be able to get Lola 51 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:05.159 out of my ice arms. 52 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.479 Well, I'll tell you I had a neighbor. I had 53 00:03:08.479 --> 00:03:12.840 a neighbor who will not be identified. Okay, but this 54 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:18.199 is no I'm serious. This is twenty years ago in Newton, 55 00:03:18.680 --> 00:03:20.879 and she was gardening in the back in her yard, 56 00:03:21.520 --> 00:03:26.520 lovely yard of great gardener. And when I first met her, 57 00:03:26.639 --> 00:03:28.919 when we first moved into the neighborhood, she told me 58 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.199 this story at which was that a few months earlier. 59 00:03:32.599 --> 00:03:34.719 It would have been in May, this time of year, 60 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:38.680 a beautiful day. She had a small dog. I forget 61 00:03:38.719 --> 00:03:42.599 what type, but a small dog. Coyote came out of 62 00:03:42.639 --> 00:03:45.159 the woods in the middle of the day. Whether it 63 00:03:45.199 --> 00:03:47.439 was eleven thirty or one o'clock middle what I would 64 00:03:47.479 --> 00:03:51.639 call the middle of the day, grabbed the coyote, and 65 00:03:51.719 --> 00:03:56.159 my neighbor, who at that point, you know, was not 66 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.719 an older person. Probably she was, I don't know, forty 67 00:03:59.800 --> 00:04:02.719 years years old, but not someone who wants to race 68 00:04:02.919 --> 00:04:06.719 with coyotes. She had the courage to go chase the 69 00:04:06.800 --> 00:04:12.039 coyote and pull her beloved dog out of the mouth 70 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:13.199 of the coyote. 71 00:04:13.800 --> 00:04:14.439 Oh my god. 72 00:04:14.639 --> 00:04:20.199 Okay, now, just so, her dog was hurt and had 73 00:04:20.199 --> 00:04:23.079 to have surgery, and it was eight thousand dollars worth 74 00:04:23.120 --> 00:04:25.639 of surgery. Now you and I both know because we're 75 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.360 both dog lovers. I've had dogs and my kids now 76 00:04:28.399 --> 00:04:32.040 have dogs. I love dogs, and I love dogs more 77 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:35.720 than then. Well, you probably feel the same way about 78 00:04:35.720 --> 00:04:37.600 your dog. So eight dollars. 79 00:04:37.639 --> 00:04:39.120 I'm obsessed with any kind of dog. 80 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.399 Eight thousand dollars is a lot of money, but we 81 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:44.759 would spend that in a New York second. So she 82 00:04:44.879 --> 00:04:48.839 spent the money. A year later, she was out in 83 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:51.680 her yard almost the exact same time of the year 84 00:04:51.800 --> 00:04:55.959 in May, and another coyote, or maybe the same coyote, 85 00:04:56.079 --> 00:04:59.560 came out, grabbed the dog, ran off with the dog 86 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:01.199 to be seen again. 87 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:02.639 Oh my god. 88 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:07.480 Yeah, And so that's an alert to everybody. And by 89 00:05:07.480 --> 00:05:10.759 the way, she was a very smart, bright, athletic woman. 90 00:05:10.920 --> 00:05:14.160 I mean, this is not someone who couldn't she a 91 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.959 year ago. She just was a little quicker or whatever, 92 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:20.600 or maybe the coyote was smarter. What are you hearing 93 00:05:20.680 --> 00:05:24.199 from your friends in your Yeah, in your community. You're 94 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.199 not the only one who's experienced. 95 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.680 This, right, No, So last August I was this past August, 96 00:05:29.759 --> 00:05:33.000 I was walking with my neighbor and there was a 97 00:05:33.079 --> 00:05:38.000 coyote at the other dead end street in our neighborhood. 98 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.199 So we ran to her house and she drove me home. 99 00:05:42.600 --> 00:05:46.120 But her at her house she had two in her 100 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:50.240 yard at six pm one day. And then my neighbor 101 00:05:50.319 --> 00:05:53.800 that lives like two houses from me, ten thirty in 102 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.120 the morning, there were two coyotes in her driveway. 103 00:05:57.480 --> 00:06:00.000 It doesn't matter, I mean, obviously at six pm at night, 104 00:06:00.079 --> 00:06:02.120 that's a scary time because that's supper. 105 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:08.720 Time, you know, in the summertime, and then the morning. 106 00:06:08.879 --> 00:06:11.279 So do we have a mutual friend. I believe that 107 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:16.639 a mutual friend told us about your dilemma. Do we 108 00:06:17.319 --> 00:06:19.399 don't mention her last name? Audrey. 109 00:06:19.800 --> 00:06:21.319 Yep, yes, okay, good neighbor. 110 00:06:21.839 --> 00:06:25.120 Yeah good, okay. Well, thank Audrey for getting us in 111 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:31.480 touch with you. I just here's the problem we live. 112 00:06:31.600 --> 00:06:35.519 We choose to live in a suburb, and I don't 113 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:37.560 want to hurt any animal. I don't want to hurt 114 00:06:37.560 --> 00:06:40.519 a coyote. But I think we've gotten to the point 115 00:06:40.800 --> 00:06:44.639 where I had someone on from mass Wildlife the other night. 116 00:06:44.800 --> 00:06:50.439 I guess the bear population has exploded in Massachusetts and 117 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:55.639 they are going to, I guess, increase the time in 118 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.000 which people who hunt bears can hunt because they need 119 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:02.079 to call the called the herd of bears. They are 120 00:07:02.079 --> 00:07:06.079 like five thousand bears in Massachusetts and they're coming eastward. 121 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:11.680 But it seems to me that coyotes are almost protected 122 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:16.079 and encouraged, and there's going to be some small child 123 00:07:16.199 --> 00:07:19.240 who gets attacked by a coyote and may be worse 124 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:24.279 than attacked by a coyote. If unless we we within 125 00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:26.519 the one twenty eighty area get together and say, look, 126 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:29.279 this is crazy. We did not choose to live in 127 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:33.319 Wyoming on Montana. We're living in within the one twenty 128 00:07:33.360 --> 00:07:35.120 eight area. Do you agree with me on that or not. 129 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:38.519 I'm saying I completely agree. They're saying, like I told 130 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.519 my neighbor today, he has a fence sann yard. I'm like, 131 00:07:41.680 --> 00:07:44.639 do not let your dog out even in the fence 132 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:49.439 in yard at night. They can they jump over fences, yes, 133 00:07:50.639 --> 00:07:53.800 but it's fighting. So I if my neighbor can't go 134 00:07:53.879 --> 00:07:55.560 out with me at the time I go out, or 135 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:58.399 anytime after nine, I don't go out with my dog. 136 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.519 I I'm like, you know what, seven o'clock was, fine, 137 00:08:01.600 --> 00:08:03.319 I can't go out with her. I'm too nervous to 138 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:04.040 go by myself. 139 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:07.240 Now. No, well, you have every right to be and 140 00:08:07.480 --> 00:08:11.120 I wouldn't go out. I when when one of my 141 00:08:12.120 --> 00:08:15.959 grand dogs is staying with us and I go out 142 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.680 at night, I keep them on a leash and I 143 00:08:18.800 --> 00:08:20.759 keep them right near me and I can scoop them. 144 00:08:20.879 --> 00:08:21.959 Yea if I have to. 145 00:08:22.160 --> 00:08:24.639 Okay, oh yeah, she's always on a leash. But I'm 146 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:25.839 still too nervous at night. 147 00:08:26.519 --> 00:08:30.120 Yeah. No, I'm telling you. I mean they are part 148 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:33.639 of our family. And I think that at some point 149 00:08:33.639 --> 00:08:37.000 this has to mature itself as a as a political issue, 150 00:08:37.039 --> 00:08:40.919 and we need the legislature to say, okay, we need 151 00:08:40.960 --> 00:08:45.720 to allow trapping of coyotes and relocating coyotes away from 152 00:08:46.200 --> 00:08:52.320 from eastern Massachusetts. It just is inconsistent with the lifestyle 153 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:54.159 that people want to live. You want to have it. 154 00:08:54.279 --> 00:08:55.559 You want to have a pet, you want to have 155 00:08:55.600 --> 00:08:57.200 a dog, you want to have a cat. You don't 156 00:08:57.200 --> 00:08:57.759 want them sack. 157 00:08:58.039 --> 00:08:59.840 You want to feel free to go out and take 158 00:08:59.840 --> 00:09:01.240 a your neighborhoods. 159 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:03.639 Well, yes, oh, I've been in situations. I've been in 160 00:09:03.679 --> 00:09:06.360 situations where I've been stared down by coyotes. 161 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:08.120 Yeah. 162 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.360 And I must tell you that I've been in situations 163 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:13.720 where I have seen coyotes. And I can vividly remember 164 00:09:14.399 --> 00:09:16.720 being one night late on stow ro driver and the 165 00:09:16.759 --> 00:09:19.519 coyote was in the middle of the road, and part 166 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:22.240 of me said, you know, just you know, get geit 167 00:09:22.360 --> 00:09:25.159 that I didn't have the heart to hit the coyote, okay, 168 00:09:25.519 --> 00:09:29.000 because it's still a living, a living thing, but I 169 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:30.960 want him out of here. I want him out of here. 170 00:09:31.279 --> 00:09:33.759 As a matter of fact, many years ago, another neighbor 171 00:09:33.799 --> 00:09:37.000 mind went to actually was trying to trap a coyote. 172 00:09:37.080 --> 00:09:40.480 Now I think that technically that's illegal, okay, And she 173 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:43.039 told me about it, and the next morning she woke 174 00:09:43.159 --> 00:09:46.200 up and she found in the in her trap. She 175 00:09:46.279 --> 00:09:50.080 didn't find a coyote. She found something worse than a coyote, 176 00:09:50.360 --> 00:09:54.399 a faster cat. Do you know what a fisher can is? Yeah, those. 177 00:09:55.720 --> 00:09:57.120 Big big cats right. 178 00:09:57.279 --> 00:10:00.360 Well, the nuts because she said this fisher cat was 179 00:10:00.639 --> 00:10:03.519 and she actually had a trapper come in and put 180 00:10:03.720 --> 00:10:06.039 a trap in her backyard, you know, and so you know, 181 00:10:06.399 --> 00:10:09.720 a cage trap. She said she was afraid to go 182 00:10:09.799 --> 00:10:13.159 near the trap because this fisher cat they're vicious. They 183 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:16.600 are vicious. They're more vicious than a coyote. Was running 184 00:10:16.639 --> 00:10:19.360 up and down, you know, across the front, top of 185 00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:21.720 the crate, the inside of the crate, down, running on 186 00:10:22.039 --> 00:10:28.320 the side. It's insane what we have allowed to come 187 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:32.759 into eastern Massachusetts. And the politicians sleep on this. So 188 00:10:32.879 --> 00:10:36.840 thanks for sharing your story and absolutely you really mean that, 189 00:10:37.399 --> 00:10:41.200 and say say hello to our good friend Audrey. 190 00:10:40.879 --> 00:10:42.639 Because I will, I will. 191 00:10:42.879 --> 00:10:46.240 You know this has got it's just about everyone in 192 00:10:46.279 --> 00:10:48.639 your neighborhood. Are they aware of this? Hopefully? And are 193 00:10:48.639 --> 00:10:49.080 they aware? 194 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:51.919 Everyone is aware? Like and my friend that had the 195 00:10:51.960 --> 00:10:54.960 two in her driveway at ten thirty in the morning, Yes, 196 00:10:55.000 --> 00:10:58.080 another night, she was walking around the block and she 197 00:10:58.200 --> 00:11:02.399 was heading home to our dead and you couldn't walk 198 00:11:02.480 --> 00:11:04.759 down here because the coyote was sit there, so she 199 00:11:04.759 --> 00:11:07.240 had to go around the block again and wait and 200 00:11:07.519 --> 00:11:08.279 just like wait. 201 00:11:09.799 --> 00:11:12.679 I've talked with some of the coyote advocates. You know, 202 00:11:12.679 --> 00:11:14.559 they had a huge problem up in the Hunt a 203 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:17.240 few years ago. We did some stories on that where 204 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:20.240 the coyotes were just braizen. They were brazen and they 205 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:23.759 were confronting people. And when you talk to the advocates 206 00:11:23.759 --> 00:11:25.879 of the coyotes and say we'll just make some noise, 207 00:11:25.919 --> 00:11:28.759 wave your arm and they're going away, I don't think so, right. 208 00:11:29.519 --> 00:11:32.639 I mean, yes, my mom made me a can of change. 209 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:35.200 I'm like, what is that going to do for someone 210 00:11:35.240 --> 00:11:38.559 that's five feet right to work? 211 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:42.759 Yeah, and they just need to get out, get them 212 00:11:42.759 --> 00:11:46.039 out past one, you know, four ninety five and let 213 00:11:46.080 --> 00:11:48.639 them out there. I think people who live out there 214 00:11:49.519 --> 00:11:51.879 are are more used to them, and to have them 215 00:11:51.879 --> 00:11:54.759 here in eastern Massachusetts. I think it's gonna We're going 216 00:11:54.840 --> 00:11:56.960 to have a tragedy, and I hate to predict it, 217 00:11:57.200 --> 00:12:01.039 but I think it's inevitable. Nicole, thanks much for joining 218 00:12:01.080 --> 00:12:04.519 us tonight, Thanks for listening to the other side, and please, 219 00:12:05.039 --> 00:12:07.240 if if your friends want to hear the interview, they 220 00:12:07.240 --> 00:12:10.639 can go to our web page. Tomorrow you can just 221 00:12:10.679 --> 00:12:13.360 go to Nightside and demand in the ten o'clock hour, 222 00:12:13.720 --> 00:12:15.399 we'll be posted and you're right at the top of 223 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:18.279 the hour. So thank you so much. Please stay said 224 00:12:19.200 --> 00:12:23.960 and give your beautiful French bulldog a big hug for 225 00:12:27.039 --> 00:12:29.440 thanks to call. All right, we'll take a quick break, 226 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.759 thanks to Cale. I only have one line left open here, 227 00:12:32.759 --> 00:12:37.440 so at six pet seven. My proposal is that coyotes 228 00:12:37.799 --> 00:12:43.080 should be relocated, relocated outside of one twenty eight, arguably 229 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.559 outside of four ninety five. It's as simple as that. 230 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:49.480 I think that people out on that part of the 231 00:12:49.519 --> 00:12:52.320 state are more used to them, they're more comfortable with them, 232 00:12:52.639 --> 00:12:55.360 and I think it's a huge problem that has to 233 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:57.360 be addressed. Well that's what we're going to be talking 234 00:12:57.360 --> 00:12:59.360 about for a while, that's for sure. So we got 235 00:12:59.399 --> 00:13:03.919 Mark and John and Patty and the other line has 236 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:07.200 just filled as well. We'll talk about it for a while. 237 00:13:07.279 --> 00:13:09.080 If you disagree with me on this and you think 238 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:13.759 that we need to live and cohabit with our coyote neighbors, 239 00:13:14.080 --> 00:13:16.399 bring it on. We can have a conversation and if 240 00:13:16.399 --> 00:13:20.519 you support the idea, let's get let's get the legislature, 241 00:13:20.600 --> 00:13:23.679 or let's get these cities and towns moving to select 242 00:13:23.679 --> 00:13:26.399 people and all of that, and let's move them out 243 00:13:26.559 --> 00:13:34.480 back on nightside. Right after this, it's nightside, let's go 244 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:37.039 to the phones. Started off with John and New York. 245 00:13:37.120 --> 00:13:38.960 John got any coyotes in New York? 246 00:13:40.600 --> 00:13:46.159 Yes, good evening, Dan, John. I live in Scohari, which 247 00:13:46.200 --> 00:13:47.320 is a rural area. 248 00:13:47.519 --> 00:13:47.720 Yep. 249 00:13:47.960 --> 00:13:50.960 My elevation and my property is about thirteen hundred feet 250 00:13:51.159 --> 00:13:55.519 but down in the valley there are numerous coyotes there. 251 00:13:55.720 --> 00:13:57.759 And get it, they ever come up? 252 00:13:57.879 --> 00:13:59.120 Do they ever come up and visit? 253 00:14:00.440 --> 00:14:00.519 No? 254 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.039 This is what I won the I lived there thirty 255 00:14:04.120 --> 00:14:06.519 years now. There've been times at night that they start 256 00:14:06.600 --> 00:14:10.039 carrying on and they're fighting, and they're barking and screaming, right, 257 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:13.120 and you're talking about they're probably only two or three 258 00:14:13.200 --> 00:14:16.159 thousand feet away in the woods for me, right, Yeah, 259 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:19.080 And I've never seen a one at all. But my 260 00:14:19.240 --> 00:14:22.840 concern is maybe somebody one of your calls could give 261 00:14:22.840 --> 00:14:25.759 me advice on if I get confronted with one, what 262 00:14:25.840 --> 00:14:26.440 do I do? 263 00:14:27.279 --> 00:14:30.639 Well, maybe we will have callers who'll give you advice, 264 00:14:30.720 --> 00:14:35.480 I'm told, but I don't necessarily believe it. Supposedly you're 265 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:39.399 supposed to make a lot of noise if you have, 266 00:14:39.600 --> 00:14:42.360 you know, anything with you that can make noise, theoretically 267 00:14:42.399 --> 00:14:46.639 a shovel or anything banging, And supposedly they're more scared 268 00:14:46.679 --> 00:14:49.600 of us than we are of them. Wave your arms 269 00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:54.279 and yell. But I gotta tell you, I'm not certain 270 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:58.279 that's good advice. But that is what the coyote advocates 271 00:14:58.320 --> 00:14:59.320 will tell you to do. 272 00:15:00.960 --> 00:15:03.840 Yeah, But sometimes when it's you know, late at night, 273 00:15:03.879 --> 00:15:06.320 and you're outside and you're doing something, maybe taking the 274 00:15:06.360 --> 00:15:08.919 trash out to the curb or something, and these things 275 00:15:08.960 --> 00:15:12.360 start carrying on, it is scary, Like the way they're screaming. 276 00:15:12.639 --> 00:15:15.679 Oh, let me tell you. You can tell. I live 277 00:15:15.679 --> 00:15:18.679 in an area where there's some woods nearby, and during 278 00:15:18.720 --> 00:15:21.679 the summertime, when all the windows are open and the 279 00:15:21.799 --> 00:15:25.840 coyotes have a kill, they get a rabbit or something 280 00:15:25.919 --> 00:15:30.360 like that, they howl. It's a pack howl, and it's frightening. 281 00:15:30.559 --> 00:15:34.919 I got going on, all right, yeah, I catch oh, yeah, 282 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:37.919 all right, they killed somebody and they're all going to dinner. 283 00:15:38.399 --> 00:15:43.639 Exactly exactly, and it's and it sounds ugly. And sometimes 284 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.600 I have. Well, I lived in another area where we 285 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:51.519 would find in the morning. I lived about twenty miles 286 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:53.559 west of the city and a little in a town 287 00:15:53.639 --> 00:15:56.639 called Sherburne, which is your It was almost a rural 288 00:15:56.679 --> 00:15:59.440 community that a lot of horses and big fields and 289 00:15:59.440 --> 00:16:02.120 stuff like that. Uh uh, And we would we would 290 00:16:02.159 --> 00:16:04.679 find a rabbit pelt on the front lawn and you 291 00:16:04.759 --> 00:16:07.440 knew that there was around. They had they had a 292 00:16:07.519 --> 00:16:09.799 rabbit for dinner last night, if you get my drift. 293 00:16:10.000 --> 00:16:13.320 So yeah, I would just be careful. You gotta be 294 00:16:13.320 --> 00:16:15.440 careful and keeps inside. 295 00:16:15.600 --> 00:16:20.000 Keep Yeah, but maybe some caller who's listening to us 296 00:16:20.039 --> 00:16:22.679 now might know something more about it than I do 297 00:16:23.360 --> 00:16:26.279 that could mention something about what you really should do. 298 00:16:26.559 --> 00:16:28.519 Because I don't have a gun. I'm not a hunter, 299 00:16:28.639 --> 00:16:31.000 you know, so I'm not I'm not, you know, equipped 300 00:16:31.080 --> 00:16:36.759 to handle it, you know. On my side. Listen, I 301 00:16:36.840 --> 00:16:38.759 know you have all the callers that are hanging on 302 00:16:38.799 --> 00:16:40.240 the line. So I'm going to wish you a good 303 00:16:40.320 --> 00:16:42.039 night and thank you for the call, and I'll speak 304 00:16:42.080 --> 00:16:44.440 to you again soon. I finally took your advice about 305 00:16:44.480 --> 00:16:45.360 calling earlier. 306 00:16:45.600 --> 00:16:47.639 Well, thank you. And by the way, John One did 307 00:16:47.720 --> 00:16:50.399 just that. I have is at least in Massachusetts, you 308 00:16:50.399 --> 00:16:53.519 can buy pepper spray and if you. 309 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:58.559 Have peas, that's not a bad radio commercials, it's not. 310 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:00.600 A bad option. You just get to make sure you're 311 00:17:00.600 --> 00:17:02.799 not out there with a windy night because you fire 312 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:05.480 the pepper spray and if you're down win from it's 313 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:07.279 gonna blow back in your face and it's no fun. 314 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:10.519 Okay, right, Yeah, Well, the way the wind brows from 315 00:17:10.559 --> 00:17:12.440 the west and the northwest, why I mean a lot 316 00:17:12.440 --> 00:17:14.559 of it blows because I'm uppill. But yeah, you have 317 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:15.440 to be careful of that. 318 00:17:15.559 --> 00:17:16.680 You got it. Good advice. 319 00:17:16.880 --> 00:17:19.000 I'll look in today. Thank you very much, and have 320 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:19.519 a good night. 321 00:17:19.640 --> 00:17:21.960 My pleasure. Thanks John, we'll talk soon. Have a good one. 322 00:17:23.480 --> 00:17:25.599 I'm working Memorial Day, but I have a good Memorial 323 00:17:25.640 --> 00:17:28.640 Day weekend. Thanks March. You're gonna be on the air, yes, 324 00:17:28.720 --> 00:17:31.519 Monday Night Live. Absolutely absolutely. 325 00:17:31.559 --> 00:17:34.079 Do you march in the local parade day or you're 326 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:34.839 too busy for that? 327 00:17:35.400 --> 00:17:38.400 Yeah? No, I don't. I don't. I did some military time, 328 00:17:38.519 --> 00:17:41.759 but I'm not I'm not a marcher. I did enough 329 00:17:41.759 --> 00:17:44.960 marching when they when. 330 00:17:44.839 --> 00:17:47.119 I was when I was young, I belonged to the 331 00:17:47.119 --> 00:17:49.000 Sons of the American Legion. I don't know if you 332 00:17:49.039 --> 00:17:51.480 know what that's about. Familiar organization. 333 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:52.319 Dad. 334 00:17:52.920 --> 00:17:56.400 You know, my dad was the commander and he used 335 00:17:56.400 --> 00:17:58.240 to leave the parade, you know, so I used to 336 00:17:58.279 --> 00:17:58.680 do that. 337 00:17:58.839 --> 00:18:01.200 Good for you, I got for you more. 338 00:18:01.240 --> 00:18:03.480 We used to do it a few weeks before. We 339 00:18:03.519 --> 00:18:06.599 would go to all the cemeteries where people were buried 340 00:18:06.599 --> 00:18:08.720 from the wars, and we put flags on their greed. 341 00:18:08.839 --> 00:18:11.759 Yes, that happens around here a lot. We're very patriotic 342 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:12.680 here in Massachusetts. 343 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:15.079 That was. That was a lot of work. I'll never forget. 344 00:18:15.200 --> 00:18:18.519 That certainly was. Thanks John, thank you, Yes it. 345 00:18:18.599 --> 00:18:20.319 Was okay, have a good night, Dan. 346 00:18:20.359 --> 00:18:23.079 My friend, keep and keep calling. Thanks, good night. Take 347 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.759 a very quick break here on night Side. It's just 348 00:18:25.839 --> 00:18:28.000 ten thirty ones who are actually on time. Let's get 349 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:30.359 to the newscast. The one line that's open, and people 350 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:32.920 have been complaining lately that they can't get through as 351 00:18:32.960 --> 00:18:35.640 a line open right now, six one, seven, two, five, four, 352 00:18:35.839 --> 00:18:38.119 ten thirty. Back on night Side. 353 00:18:38.720 --> 00:18:43.359 It's night Side with Dan Ray on w Boston's news radio. 354 00:18:43.599 --> 00:18:46.559 Okay, so we're talking about coyotes in Brookline, and if 355 00:18:46.559 --> 00:18:50.920 they're in Brookline, they're probably everywhere. Here in eastern Massachusetts. 356 00:18:50.960 --> 00:18:53.400 Mark is in Austin. Mark, you're next on nightside. Welcome 357 00:18:53.400 --> 00:18:53.880 back right. 358 00:18:53.799 --> 00:18:57.039 Ahead, Yes, Dan, good evening, Thanks for taking my call. 359 00:18:57.160 --> 00:18:57.640 You're welcome. 360 00:18:57.640 --> 00:19:02.039 I haven't seen any coyotes, bye, I've seen wild turkeys 361 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:03.880 and peacocks and other. 362 00:19:04.480 --> 00:19:06.960 Turkeys could be by the way, don't And. 363 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:08.400 I do support your proposal. 364 00:19:08.599 --> 00:19:11.720 Thank you. Don't mess with wild turkeys because they could 365 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:12.920 be nasty critters. 366 00:19:13.319 --> 00:19:21.160 They well, they're herbivores. That's the most important thing, you know, they're. 367 00:19:21.039 --> 00:19:22.720 Herbivores confront the. 368 00:19:25.119 --> 00:19:25.599 Rabbits. 369 00:19:25.680 --> 00:19:30.640 And you know the point is that coyotes are dangerous 370 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:34.960 predator predators and need to be officially treated as such. 371 00:19:35.400 --> 00:19:37.079 No, I agree with you, and thank you for agreeing 372 00:19:37.079 --> 00:19:40.319 with me. All I was saying to you on turkeys 373 00:19:40.480 --> 00:19:43.079 is they they kind of look a little goofy and 374 00:19:43.119 --> 00:19:45.160 you figure they're not a problem. But if a turkey 375 00:19:45.200 --> 00:19:47.359 turns on you, they can do a little bit of damage. 376 00:19:47.440 --> 00:19:49.799 And just as a word to the wise, is sufficient. 377 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:59.559 Yeah, I mean, I guess you know, in Allston, which 378 00:19:59.599 --> 00:20:05.079 is he populated, I find it reassuring. The only thing 379 00:20:05.160 --> 00:20:08.240 I don't refined reassuring is the rodents. 380 00:20:08.759 --> 00:20:11.119 Well, that's another that's get rid of them too. 381 00:20:11.440 --> 00:20:12.759 For another call. 382 00:20:13.119 --> 00:20:15.519 Uh you got it, hey, Mark, as always, thanks much, 383 00:20:15.559 --> 00:20:18.359 we'll talk soon. Appreciate your call. Be well, be well, 384 00:20:18.720 --> 00:20:21.960 good night. Yep. Let me go next to Patty and 385 00:20:22.039 --> 00:20:23.000 Wellesley is back. 386 00:20:23.160 --> 00:20:25.359 Patty, how are you hid? 387 00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:30.000 How are you Patty? Nice to hear your voice? 388 00:20:30.680 --> 00:20:33.559 Oh my god, don I just saw a fox go 389 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:36.400 right in front of my car in Wellesley. I should 390 00:20:36.480 --> 00:20:40.000 swear up my street. I almost my heart is out 391 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:40.559 of my head. 392 00:20:41.200 --> 00:20:43.200 A fuck a fox? 393 00:20:43.279 --> 00:20:50.079 Okay, a fox, A big long, low tail bushy. I 394 00:20:50.599 --> 00:20:52.079 swear it is that. 395 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:57.680 I was whoa, Yeah, we got We have more animals 396 00:20:57.720 --> 00:20:59.920 in our neighborhood. I think that most of us realized. 397 00:21:02.359 --> 00:21:07.000 And there's a turkey in Lower Falls in Newton and Wellesley. 398 00:21:07.480 --> 00:21:09.680 I forget his name, but he's on What's Up Wellesley 399 00:21:10.119 --> 00:21:12.920 and we haven't seen him in weeks, and everyone's like, 400 00:21:13.000 --> 00:21:15.680 where is it? I think they call him George, and 401 00:21:15.880 --> 00:21:19.880