Posted on 07/09/2014 9:29:54 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) -- Police in Mount Vernon, Washington, killed an agitated Angus cow that rampaged through town, tossing a police officer into the air and tap-dancing on a patrol car.
The Skagit Valley Herald reports (http://is.gd/dm29HB) that police spokeswoman Shannon Haigh says the cow apparently escaped from a farm outside the city limits. It was first reported in a Wal-Mart parking lot last Friday.
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I can just hear the wife when you got home. “I work my fingers to the bone keeping a nice house for you and that’s all you do every day? Shoot the bull with your friends!?!”
The cow TOSSED the cop just before tap dancing on the man’s vehicle.
Profound disrespect for authoritah!
I’ve been sent airborne by a cow before. Uh, long story . . . she was just messin’ with me.
On a more serious note..
That officer is lucky to be alive and uninjured.
A few months ago a cow attacked a rancher (in the dark), threw him airborn, and the rancher landed on his head and broke his neck. It was a serious injury like the one Christopher Reeves got. The only reason the rancher wasn’t further injured was because his cow dog got the attention of the cow, and kept her away from the rancher.
This cow was thought to be dead because the area had a serious forest fire just a year prior. Apparently, she managed to escape and got bred. She’d hidden her baby in the hay stack that the rancher was attending and fixing fence around...in the dark, yes. So, he never saw her coming to protect her baby.
A serious concussion messed up his head for a while, and intensive surgeries repaired the breaks. He’s lucky not only to be alive, but still walking. He has a lot of physical stuff to attend to, and deal with.
So ya, that officer was lucky that he wasn’t harmed any more than he was.
Still, the way the story is written is funny.
I’m sure the dispatcher was laughing like crazy as he/she put out the dispatch...typical humor.
Jerseys got horns, IIRC.
This one needs a steak dish named in its honor, IMO.
Yep, but they are usually surgically removed and they usually have bigger tits.
Pretty hollywood-eske dontcha think.
Everything was going fine until the cow barked.
MOO...
BANG!
...MOOO!
[cue Weezer]
“When I was younger
“I used to shoot cows for fun, yeah
“Actually I didn’t do that
“’Cause I didn’t want the cow to be sad...”
Wow! That is quite a story. I am glad the rancher is doing so well.
And I am glad the policeman does not have worse injuries.
Always heard that there are three milch breeds; Holstein, Guernsey, & Jersey and that Jersey milk is richest.
Didn’t know Angus are polled; this one didn’t need horns to pull off that rampage. Eat of the steaks carved from it and inherit its fighting spirit.
Kinda reminds Me of Molly but She way more articulate and speaks Perfect Chewbacca. I'm still trying to get Her on video...
She does it when She REALLY NEEDS OUTSIDE NOW!!!! or Daddy will be running the Bissel.
LOL...!!! dad, Dad, DAD, DAD, DAD!!! I GOTTA GO NOW
First, the cops shoot barking dogs. Now, they’ve moved up to shooting “charging” cows? WTF? Are the dogs too small that you’ve gone to larger animals, gents. PETA will not like this one bit.
My dad worked for the president of the American Jersery Assn. back in the late forties and for an angus breeder afterwards.
You are right about the Jersey cow, It has a higher butterfat content than the other breeds.
And if memory serves, the Angus comes in black and red. And each can be polled or horned. I seem to have a memory of him talking about the differences waaaaaay back when.
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