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Walking early in the morning, in fact, before the sun comes up.

So it's dark. I was on my way. Here I walk on, most times I walk on an old abandoned road,

you know, wooded area. It used to be the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base back here.

I don't know what this road was used for, but it's not used now.

On my way here this morning,

and this was the first time this has happened this year,

again, it's dark,

but there were some streetlights,

and I saw a coyote across the street.

It was maybe 100 yards ahead of me.

Cross the street into a field, and then the coyote

lingered in the field. I continued moving forward thinking at some point that coyote is going

to either notice me and scamper off or simply find something else of interest and move away from where I was.

And that coyote lingered for a moment and then finally disappeared into the wooded area.

And then I realized, I think I need to review what to do in case of a coyote encounter.

Because the wooded area that that coyote disappeared into is the wooded area in which I'm walking now.

And so I think, because I actually did an episode about this a while ago, I think that there are a couple of things that you need to do.

Number one is you need to make noise.

They actually recommend, somebody recommended, that you have like a can of nails, something that you can shake and makes noise.

And secondly, that you have a tennis ball that you can throw at the coyote, throw something at the coyote.

And apparently those two things are pretty effective should you encounter a coyote that doesn't just scamper off on its own.

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