A recent incident at an Arizona race track, triggered a unique idea in the fertile mind of a Newark, Ohio City Councilman. North Newark has been plagued recently by Coyotes killing animals, and it has become quite a problem.
The Councilman read this article:
Brad Coleman, a driver for Joe Gibbs racing was traveling at 190 mph when he saw a coyote a mere 100 feet away. With no possible way of slowing down to save the creature, the driver ran it over. To his surprise he couldn't figure our where it went. He describes the incident,
“It just started smoking like crazy. And it smelled terrible. I didn’t see anything in the mirror, so I was like, ‘I wonder where it went?’".
The perceptive Councilman contacted a number of area businessmen and plans are underway to start construction of a new racetrack in the general area of the Coyote problem.
The area is located near a soccer field, some farmland, and an ice skating rink. The Councilman was quoted as saying, "We can use that ice facility to store the dead animals until proper disposal procedures can be arranged."
The area is also experiencing an over population of deer, and it is hoped that the noise and traffic will also interest the deer to wonder on to the track.
The Gibbs Race Team is in the process of designing a new front end for their race cars, similar to the ones used by locomotives many years ago. With no additional front end protection, many of the cars running in Arizona have been demolished.
Gibbs stated, "Hitting a coyote at 190 miles per hour is bad enough, but if they think we can help diminish their deer population by hitting a 200 pound deer at that speed they are mistaken."
The finished plans are being drawn up, and will be made public soon.
