WOW. This is front page news? Must be a slow news day with NOTHING better to report other than someone on NextDoor complaining about the homeless.

I wonder how many homeless people Mr. Humphrey is housing on his own property? None? Hmm... seems to be such a whacked-out defender of ALL the negative behavior some homeless engage in, you'd think he'd have a little tent city set up in his backyard.

Even Mr. Humphrey is a NIMBY!

pretty thin soup here. hard to separate the lazy joke article from news when it's published like this.

few questions here:
why might there be more coyotes in neighborhood? are there actually more coyotes in certain hoods? do homeless camps in natural areas have impacts on the local ecosystems (hey could be neat article!)? should a decent journalist write snarky humor articles? could there be things outside of the authors speculation that might explain the situation? could a person who knows about the topic be consulted? is the author interested in coyotes, homeless issues, quality humor or social network discourse and norms?

Coyotes are hunters and scavengers. They will be attracted to places with prey (including residential neighborhoods, as they will absolutely hunt and eat cats and small dogs), as well as places with other food supplies, including food waste left out. Plenty of housed people create food waste as litter, but it also wouldn't be at all surprising if there were a correlation/causation with the food waste generated by encampments and an uptick in coyote presence (not to mention other critters like raccoons, rats, mice, opossums, etc.).

There's a reason they tell you to not leave food out and/or accessible when you camp in the wilderness - you don't want to wake up with your pack torn open, or staring down a coyote, wolf, bear, etc., who was attracted to the food source.

But snark away, Mr. Humphrey, continue to valiantly defend people not based on their behavior, but on their housing status, because according to you no homeless can ever do anything bad that might require enforcement.

Dummy who edits the Merc writes lazy attack on random person. Don't ever say anything about tweakers camping in wildlife habitat or you will be subject to the same old one-sided drivel. Homeless good, housed bad.