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Loose cow caught after six months in Georgia
ArcaMax ^ | Set. 17, 2013 | UPI

Posted on 09/19/2013 7:37:34 AM PDT by 1rudeboy

MCDONOUGH, Ga. (UPI) -- The Georgia Department of Transportation said a loose bovine causing traffic troubles at an interstate intersection has been caught after about six months.

Jill Goldberg, spokeswoman for the state Department of Transportation, said the animal, found to be a cow rather than the bull it was originally believed to be, wandered into a pen built to ensnare it Monday near the intersection of I-75 and I-675, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Tuesday.

"We corralled it, then tranquilized it," Goldberg said.

The animal was first spotted wandering in the area about six months ago and DOT workers put a corral with water and food at a nearby maintenance facility in the hopes of ensnaring the bovine.

"It is on its way to somewhere better," Goldberg said.

She did not reveal the ultimate fate of the cow.


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To: 1rudeboy

mmmmmmm.....beefsteak.....hamburger......ribs......mmmm, mmmm, mmm


21 posted on 09/19/2013 8:13:00 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: 1rudeboy

> Completely believable. Cows are sneaky. It’s also conceivable that no one in Georgia knows how to capture one.

Sounds like an event that happened in a small Western New York town in the New York Southern Tier about 25 years ago.
A bull escaped from a farm and for two or three years was damaging fences and crops on the farms in the area. He evaded local attempts at hunting him down and bounties put up for his capture or demise for several years. Eventually, the damage stopped and everyone assumed he just died out in the woods. They never did get him or find out what happened to him.


22 posted on 09/19/2013 8:13:02 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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To: 1rudeboy

Not many cowboys east of the Mississippi.


23 posted on 09/19/2013 8:15:36 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

That cow could write a book about her 6 months on the lamb...

I mean lam


24 posted on 09/19/2013 8:16:23 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: JRandomFreeper

Six months to catch a cow. Eleven years to “rebuild” the World Trade Center. Our ancestors must be so proud.


25 posted on 09/19/2013 8:19:14 AM PDT by cld51860 (Oderint dum metuant)
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To: 1rudeboy

Well done.


26 posted on 09/19/2013 8:19:50 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: 1rudeboy

That’s the problem with this country these days...
too many slutty cows...


27 posted on 09/19/2013 8:34:41 AM PDT by matginzac
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To: 1rudeboy
"It is on its way to somewhere better,"

....in my belly

what an udderly silly story

28 posted on 09/19/2013 8:38:41 AM PDT by Revelation 911 (if "meat is murder" what is abortion?)
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To: BuffaloJack

oddly, while hiking my property in the Southern Tier NY Hills, I came across a cow skeleton on a rather steep hill side - no farms up top - all i can figure is it made the trek up from the valley


29 posted on 09/19/2013 8:41:17 AM PDT by Revelation 911 (if "meat is murder" what is abortion?)
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To: 1rudeboy

I went out with a loose cow for a while. They aren’t all that hard to find here in Vegas.


30 posted on 09/19/2013 8:49:10 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: Cyber Liberty

+1


31 posted on 09/19/2013 8:50:08 AM PDT by Toddsterpatriot (Science is hard. Harder if you're stupid.)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Actually there are plenty of cowboys and cowgirls here in the South. Don’t know why they didn’t call one. I’m a 63 year old cowgirl. Give me a rope and my “little red horse” and it would have been a done deal.


32 posted on 09/19/2013 8:55:52 AM PDT by Himyar
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To: 1rudeboy

Sounds like no actual cowboys were involved. It should have been obvious whether it was a cow or bull even from a distance...it wouldn’t have taken a cowboy 6 months to pen her, and once she was penned there was no need to tranquilize her, a cowboy would have just loaded her out of the pen into a trailer. Cows are sneaky, but as my dad always said cows are dumb and you have to be smarter than the cow. My dad was a great cowboy so he knew what he was talking about for sure.


33 posted on 09/19/2013 9:00:43 AM PDT by Tammy8 ( ~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: Sacajaweau

Actually, it’s “sue cow.” Cows can be onery but they’re not that fast or that bright.


34 posted on 09/19/2013 9:37:33 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Tammy8

I’m no cowboy, but if I told a client it would take six months to round up a cow, I’d be out of a job.


35 posted on 09/19/2013 11:08:42 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy

Oh, so this wasn’t another Janet Reno story?


36 posted on 09/19/2013 11:09:41 AM PDT by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: 1rudeboy
A loose cow....
37 posted on 09/19/2013 11:34:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: 1rudeboy

I have never claimed to be a cowboy or cowgirl for that matter but have many in the family and have always lived on a ranch. If I couldn’t round up a cow in less time I would never live it down. I have an 11 year old grandson they should have hired to gather her.


38 posted on 09/19/2013 12:19:45 PM PDT by Tammy8 ( ~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: 1rudeboy

Sorry us folks up towards the mountains tend to get a little cranky when folks make fun of us. Truth is in some parts of the country they really wouldn’t know how to round up cattle under any circumstances.

It is fair time around here so I may have had too many weekends full of corn dogs and funnel cakes which probably addled either my brain or my sense of humor (or both)


39 posted on 09/19/2013 12:44:36 PM PDT by Nifster
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To: Nifster

No worries. I live in NE Illinois, which people assume is Chicago. I get the sideways look when I tell them I’m busy with horse vets.


40 posted on 09/19/2013 12:47:15 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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