# I May As Well Post This Before Someone Else Does...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 31, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770 "2006-03-31T22:14:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/1 "2006-03-31T22:14:11Z")
> [@](#):
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> Hal was finally caught when a police officer shot the animal with a tranquilizer dart.
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> Officials had taken Hal from a wildlife rehabilitation expert in Long Island on Thursday and had planned to release him in a state forest in upstate New York.
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> How Hal reached Central Park is a mystery. He may have wandered into the city from the suburbs, or perhaps crossed the Hudson River from New Jersey by way of a bridge or a passing truck.
[Poor little feller](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060331/ap_on_re_us/city_coyote). ☹
And for the record, I generally take an NJ Transit train into the city.
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### Author:  [@caveman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caveman)
#### Post date: [March 31, 2006, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/2 "2006-03-31T22:25:23Z")
> [@Hal Briston](#):
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> [Poor little feller](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060331/ap_on_re_us/city_coyote). ☹
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> And for the record, I generally take an NJ Transit train into the city.
I bet he likes sheep, too…
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### Author:  [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/3 "2006-04-01T04:39:18Z")
Ah, Hal. You filthy sheep filcher.
We’re on to you. We know you went out and got an animal costume. Then you got caught (again).
Thennnnnnnnn you posted the story before anyone else could (you were able to because you knew about it first, being the perpetrator and all) to cover up your cloven tracks.
We’re on to you like you’re on to sheep, baby.
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### Author:  [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/4 "2006-04-01T04:42:26Z")
You attempt to share the Coke Zero recipe, you die.
Let that be a lesson.
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### Author:  [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/5 "2006-04-01T04:57:12Z")
Oooh, I know how we could have some fun! Let’s start an urban legend about this.
Let’s tell everyone that Hal was picked up by a hiker on vacation out west, thinking he was an abandoned domesticated puppy. When Hal grew up, his owner realized his mistake, and tried to flush-- no, _wait_, that won’t work-- set him free in the nearest “wild” area. ('Cause New Yorkers are such sheltered creatures, they think the park is the wilderness . . . get it?)
_Whee_! I’m off to start composing mass e-mails!
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### Author:  [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)
#### Post date: [April 1, 2006, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/6 "2006-04-01T05:17:18Z")
Isn’t part of Central Park the Sheep Meadow? :o
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/7 "2006-04-04T16:51:55Z")
Well, at least the sewer-gators didn’t get him…
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### Author:  [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/8 "2006-04-04T17:23:52Z")
Definition:\*\* HAL\*\*: Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer (2001)
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Source: VERA / Linux Dictionary V 0.16
[http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html](http://www.tldp.org/LDP/Linux-Dictionary/html/index.html)
The “puppy” is actually a computer programmed to…
“Hey, who let you in here?”
“(Woof-Woof…grrrrrr…grrrrr)”
“Ouch! Get _back_ you big dog…Get baa…”
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### Author:  [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/9 "2006-04-04T17:29:10Z")
Well, this is obvious. The coyote is your spirit guide and you must now eat a Guatemalan Insanity Pepper and go on a vision quest in the desert.
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### Author:  [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2006, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/10 "2006-04-04T19:16:20Z")
Lemme check my calendar. Hmmm. Do I have time for a vision quest this afternoon…?
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/11 "2006-04-20T17:10:03Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#):
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> Well, this is obvious. The coyote is your spirit guide and you must now eat a Guatemalan Insanity Pepper and go on a vision quest in the desert.
You mean and eventually find my soul mate in a lighthouse? I’ve already tried that, and it didn’t work.
Besides, you have to eat the Guatemalan Insanity chile first–only then will Hal, the coyote of Central Park, come back to you after his unfortunate death.
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### Author:  [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2006, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-may-as-well-post-this-before-someone-else-does/350770/12 "2006-04-20T17:20:26Z")
If this but only the Pitt, so **Hal** could tell you all to ram it. 😉 😃