Officer Arcangelo Liberatore saving the world
Guy sends us a link to the story of Irvington police Officer Arcangelo Liberatore who was at the park with his kids when a coyote attacked a 5-year-old, “like a cheetah” according to the girl’s mother Kasey King-Petrellese. After making his own kids safe, Officer Liberatore intervened in the coyote’s nefarious intentions;
Irvington police officer Arcangelo Liberatore said he mounted the coyote and had his hands around its neck.
“I just sat and tried to squeeze the life out of it, but it was pretty resilient,” he said.
Liberatore sat on the out-of-control creature until Mount Pleasant police arrived and shot it.
From Fox News;
Liberatore had a bandage on his arm Monday, according to the Journal News.
“I was telling my wife, I’m just wired differently than most people, I think,” he said. “I run toward danger.”
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Chutzpah, Arcangelo! Damn!
Yes, they are nasty little buggers, but he won!
Unarmed off duty? WTF?
Probably won’t ever make that mistake again…
“Mounted the coyote”? In full view of the children???
He might have been armed but it was dragging a kid away. So I can give him a pass on that. Coyotes are a nasty animals, but the bambists love them!
I once caught a coyote attacking my parents’ dog. I couldn’t take a shot with it on top of the dog, so I had to beat the fucker with the shotgun* until it let go, then I smoked his ass. Saved the puppy, too.
* Didn’t have a good backstop for a rifle shot, and there were some neighbors’ houses downrange, hence the shotgun.
“I run toward danger.” Okay. I wish him a long career…
I was once shoveling snow for a man who was once a Japanese slave, a POW who worked in the mines. Anyway, my then three or four year old son was with me, using his little shovel. The wind was whipping up the snow pretty good and I had a hat on and my hood up. Thus, I could not hear the dog that was attacking my son not 20 feet away from me. I glanced over and saw it. It didn’t work out well for the dog. My son was okay. Had a bite in his back and is afraid of dogs to this day. I wasn’t okay because I was there and did not prevent it. [End therapy session.]
“I wasn’t okay because I was there and did not prevent it.”
That kind of thing is my worst fear. I once stepped on my daughter’s hand when she was an infant. I was in socks and the floor was carpeted, thank God, but I was so distraught over it that I stuck my own hand in a desk drawer and started slamming it, until my wife started yelling at me to cut that shit out in both languages.
Bravo Zulu, Officer Liberatore!
This is a spooky story. Coyotes are usually shy and hunt in packs. They aren’t normally aggressive towards humans unless they have rabies or something.
On the other hand, out where I live, it’s usually best to bring your dogs in at night. I’ve had even a large aggressive male dog come home beat up after getting into it with the coyote pack. If you leave Fluffy the Poodle out by herself, it’s pretty much like inviting the coyote pack over for poodle hors d’oeuvres.
Dangerous in packs, like punks.
Same-o with a cat.
Ft. Irwin ca. 1983 … Maj. Dickinson and I would go out at night to shoot coyotes from his red pickup truck … using a spotlight. Their eyes glow green and make great aiming points.
Anyway, the CG got wind of our evening frolics and laid down the law: NO COYOTE HUNTING.
A few days later while CG’s wife was walking their pet (poodle?), a coyote ran up, snatched the pet and ran off with the dog in its mouth.
That same day we Maj. Dickinson the go-ahead to resume hunting.
Coyotes are quite a nasty nuisance, Kudos to Officer Liberatore!
Way to go Officer!! Thats what I’m talking about, always on duty.
On another note, I don’t understand why people tolerate living with predators, of any type.
Coyotes can provide a benefit if their population is kept under control. Without coyotes acting as predators, there’s an argument that deer, rabbits, and rodents would eat every single morsel of anything green you’re trying to grow.
People who have horses also tend to tolerate coyotes because they help keep down the ground squirrel population. Losing a horse from having it break a leg by stepping in a squirrel hole is not a good thing. Horses also don’t seem to have a direct problem with coyotes, who are apparently aware enough to know that if they get to close to a horse, the result is going to be getting kicked like they were launched by an ACME rocket.
Beep beep…
It’s no argument. Idaho killed off too much of the coyote population in the 70’s and early 80’s and had literal swarms of jackrabbits. Appears to be spooling up again, too.
http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/northwest/idaho/history/article104062126.html
Can’t argue with that although they are a big pain in the ass to Cattlemen come calving season, pity they don’t prey on wild hogs!
People are predators, Roh-Dog.
So are dogs and cats.
The coyote is very adaptable and is good at living around cities. They also get very focused on their prey and are not easily distracted or dissuaded once they are in attack mode.
Legal to hunt them at night in Maine.
They decimate the deer herd.
Officer Danger needs to find out if the animal was rabid. Gotta remove the brain for that.
The coyote brain, not the officer’s.
Glad you clarified that for us.
If the Officer’s brain is removed, the only job he’d be qualified for is Broward County FL Sheriff
Bada Boom!!!!
PETA headline: “Animal hating cop attacks and kills poor innocent creature who is just trying to eat.”
When I use the term “coyotes gotta eat too”, this is not what I’m talking about! Excellent work by Officer Arcangelo Liberatore (now that’s a badass name right there!), and very strange behavior by a coyote.
Death to all coyotes, even Wiley.
Wiley Coyote cannot be killed. You can crush him with a boulder, put a stick of ACME dynamite in his mouth and light it, run him over with a bus, a locomotive, and a truck, strap a rocket to his back and watch him fall 2000 feet—none of it matters. Wiley is invincible.
2/17 Air Cav they don’t make them like they used to.
A number of years ago, one of the cable channels ran a sort of myth busters if Wiley could actually kill the Road runner with the things he tried on the cartoons. EX. Stunt man on roller skates with a gasoline powered fan on his back chasing a cardboard cut out of Road runner on the back of a moving pick up truck. Series lasted like 3 or four episodes. Anyone out there remember watching the series???
Well done Officer Liberatore! Damned well done.
I use to walk along the river front in the mornings. One morning I see a bit of left over fur and blood. About a hundred yards down the trail and off towards the high weeds away from the homes, is a pile of crap, with a nice little jeweled kitty collar in it. I just shook my head and thought, somebody’s up at their house saying, “Where’s Fluffy this morning and why didn’t she come home?”.
Similar incident. There are 3 or 4 coyotes that hang out in the arroyo behind D’s Cantina. It’s not unusual to see coyote poop just outside my fence, usually it’s full of rabbit fur. Had a pile one morning that just looked different. I found out why later when a lady came through the neighborhood with a missing Chihuahua. Thank God I got the door closed before I got the giggles.
Coyote and wolf poop make great fire-starters once the stuff has dried out.
There is no hunting coyotes around here in my county and some of the collar counties south of me. There is too much suburban housing and there are too many kids. So you’d think that coyotes would avoid us, too, right?
Wrong. They have moved into Chicago proper, hunt at night in packs, appear in the daytime, and sometimes run into a deli with an open door to cool off and get a snack of corned beef or pastrami. They will bite kids who think they are stray dogs, and they will also go after your own dogs in your fenced yard, and try to smash your storm door to get through the glass.
If this one was running around loose near a populated area, then someone had better get whatever they have for a Dept. of Natural Resources to get out with the guns now, right now, and start shooting those critters. Without humans controlling the coyote population, they just get worse.
They’ll come after your dog’s food and drink from a leaky hose. They’re smart as hell and super sneaky. Buddy of mine didn’t keep his female German Shepherd locked up properly in AZ and ended up with a litter of coyote/shepherd pups. Smart, beautiful dogs, but nobody wants ’em.
I’d imagine a similar problem in LA could be handled by telling the Crips and the Bloods that the coyotes are wearing the wrong colors…
There you go, thus in Chicongo you just tell that to The Folk and The People.
You might want to reconsider some of your ideas, Ex-PH2. For example: I live in coyote (“song dog”) country-adjacent to a cattle ranch (Mexico to the south; BLM land on the other side). Coyotes are an interesting animal- more widely distributed now than they were a century ago. They pretty much self regulate in number. Yer second sentence ‘splains not only coyote contacts in re: people, but with a hell of a lot of the problems in this or any of the other known universi. Is there really a Chicago “proper”? Coyotes running in to delis? —oties trying to smash storm doors. I was led to believe some of the native peoples were causative in Chighetto.
Yes, coyotes in the city will run thru an open door if they’re confused and hungry and smell food. I think it was two years ago that a young coyote ran into a deli in the Loop and got confused, so Animal Control was called, and he was hauled away.
The suburbs are awash in wooded areas, which aren’t “groomed” (kept clear of trash plants like buckthorn). This makes for great cover for coyote packs. There have been several news reports of coyotes going after dogs in their own back yards at night, jumping the fence to chase them and slamming right into the glass storm door.
That’s a territory thing. Dogs and coyotes are both canids and both are territorial. Some kid was waiting for the bus, saw a coyote and tried to pet it, thinking it was a dog and got bitten for it.
An Ohio research team collared a female coyote to find out how far she’d roam in one night to get food. I think they tracked her for something like 90 miles over several hours. There’s plenty of cover for them in the collar counties, and likewise, plenty of game, even in the city. They’ve been seen everywhere, even on the campus of the University of Chicago.
They’ve become a nuisance in Ohio as well, even being found on the Ohio State campus and in Columbus suburbs. There is apparently no limit, but a hunting license is required.
“I am wired differently … I run towards danger.”
BZ
Officer Liberatore is also a member of the Air National Guard. The coyote was infected with rabies.
Thanks for the info. It’s extremely rare for a coyote to attack a human, even a child, but rabies would explain that. Poor kid is gonna be in for a LOT of shots.
Officer Liberatore lived up to his name: ‘Arcangelo’ – ‘arch angel’, the archangel who liberated a child from the mouth of a rabid coyote.
Good job, sir.