Letters to Editor

Editor:

I haven’t been afraid of the coyotes in Leisure World. I used to hike, and my experience with coyotes is that they want nothing to do with humans.

Recently I was walking my dog Otto at about 7:15 a.m. I saw a coyote approaching but rather than peeling off in a different direction, this coyote stayed on course.

This felt wrong. I doubled back into a nearby laundry room and closed the door.

I waited for the coyote to pass. He didn’t. From behind a wall he emerged, head low, eyes fixed on 17-pound Otto.

To break his stare, I stepped in front of my dog and the coyote zipped around the building and in a flash he was on the other side.

After a couple of minutes of his circling around, I picked up a long handled dust pan, left Otto in the laundry room and went out to chase the coyote off. And then there were two.

I was taken aback to see the pair of hunters that I had heard about.

That was intimidating but I yelled, shook the dust pan and moved forward.

One of the coyotes trotted off quickly, but the other moved just out of reach, instinctively he knew he was faster than me. I continued forward and eventually he trotted off.

I am troubled about how this would have ended if I hadn’t been close to a laundry room because I’m not willing to let Otto be carried off and torn apart. This hunting duo needs to go.

Feliza Dixon Mutual 15 Editor:

I’ve lived in Mutual 5 for nearly 28 years, and this is a first.

This morning I heard a horn beeping from varying directions and when I looked out my unit window, there was a red car driving on my sidewalk between buildings 102 and 103.

I immediately ran out and began yelling at the driver, who then started to make a right turn onto the sidewalk between buildings 102 and 108, which is even narrower.

But then, the car backed up to turn around and continue on a sidewalk toward Wentworth and, hopefully, exit onto a street.

I reported the incident to Security and, unfortunately, was not near enough to read the license plate.

Whether a visitor or a resident, driver is unknown. But, at 7:15 a.m. it most probably was a resident.

This clearly illustrates the importance of not just written renewal tests for the elderly; but it is essential that a vehicle test be required, especially past the age of 80.

LW should also have the decal office or security witness the driving skills of anyone past 80 who may still have an active license and insurance but is too visually or cognitively impaired to operate a vehicle.

Luckily, no one was walking a dog or on the sidewalk at the time.

Mitzi Winks Mutual 5 Editor:

Barry Allen’s letter (March 28), and my response, reminds me of the parable of the donkey and the tiger.

The donkey said to the tiger, “the grass is blue.”

The tiger replied, “No, the grass is green.”

The discussion got heated, and the two decided to go before the lion, the king of the jungle. They brought their arguments and the lion declared that the tiger would be punished.

The Tiger then asked the lion “why have you punished me, after all the grass is green.”

The lion replied, “In fact, the grass is green. I did not punish you because you were wrong, I punished you, an intelligent, proud creature, for arguing with a donkey.”

Donald Trump has been attacked by democrat lawfare from the moment he came down the escalator “as a Republican.” The Russian Collusion hoax, the Ukraine phone call hoax, the “good people on both sides” hoax, the “drink bleach” hoax, the “bloodbath” hoax, the E. Jean Carroll hoax, the “Secret Documents” hoax, the Stormy Daniels hoax, the “Loan Fraud” hoax, the 14th Amendment sham, and so on and so on. All nonsense.

It’s not surprising though when one diets on the crap being dished up by CNN, MSNBC and The NY Times.

Allen’s letter closed by asking if one wants to vote for a president that is pillaging the coffers of the United States and jailing his critics.

This is exactly what Joe Biden has done and is doing. Earick Ward Mutual 7 Editor’s Note: Lawfare means the use of legal systems and institutions to damage or delegitimize an opponent, or to deter an individual’s usage of their legal rights, according to Wikipedia.