This was sent to us by a clever and competent reader and I love it and had to share.

The Coyote Principle

CALIFORNIA

• The Governor of California is jogging with his dog along a nature trail.
•  A coyote jumps out and attacks the Governor’s dog, then bites the Governor.
• The Governor starts to intervene, but reflects upon the movie “Bambi”
  and then realizes he should stop because the coyote is only doing
  what is natural.
• He calls animal control. Animal Control captures the coyote and
  bills the state $200 testing it for diseases and $500 for relocating it.
• He calls a veterinarian. The vet collects the dead dog and bills
  the State $200 testing it for diseases.
• The Governor goes to hospital and spends $3,500 getting
  checked for diseases from the coyote and on getting his bite
  wound bandaged.
• The running trail gets shut down for 6 months while Fish & Game
  conducts a $100,000 survey to make sure the area is now free
  of dangerous animals.
• The Governor spends $50,000 in state funds implementing a
  “coyote awareness program” for residents of the area.
• The State Legislature spends $2 million to study how to
  better treat rabies and how to permanently eradicate the
  disease throughout the world.
• The Governor’s security agent is fired for not stopping the attack.
• The state spends $150,000 to hire and train a new agent with
  additional special training for the nature of coyotes.
• PETA protests the coyote’s relocation and files a $5 million
  suit against the state.

TEXAS

• The Governor of Texas is jogging with his dog along a nature trail.
• A coyote jumps out and attacks his dog.
• The Governor shoots the coyote with his state-issued pistol and
  keeps jogging. The Governor has spent $.50 on a .45 ACP hollow point cartridge.
• The buzzards eat the dead coyote.

BOOM.