Police Shoot Buffalo Escaping From Packing Plant

ABC 7 Denver ^ | May 10, 2005

[HolgerDansk]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Police Monday shot and killed five buffaloes that escaped from a meatpacking plant.

Instead of fleeing, the buffalo began grazing in a yard and police fired at the buffalo with semiautomatic rifles as each charged officers one-by-one.

[...]

By the time all five animals were shot, at least 120 rounds had been fired, a few that hit empty houses and a nearby car, Laxson said. The first buffalo took several shots in the head and "didn't even flinch."

[HolgerDansk]

It would appear that 1) none of the police officers involved is a hunter, because 2) an AR-15 firing stock .223 ammo will merely annoy large game, and 3) hunting big game with small bore ammo is illegal in most states, as a consequence.

But remember what The Brady Campaign says, the police will protect you...

[Dog Gone]

If you stab someone with needles over and over again, it might prove fatal, but it's really going to be annoying first.

[paul51]

They made a run for it and didn't make it

[randog]

Did they grill their suspects afterward?

[paul51]

Not to mention that apparently some of them couldn't hit something smaller than a house with a rifle. That's pretty scary

[Pikamax]

"RUN! MAKE A BREAK FO...ohhhh grass"

*BANG*

[Normal4me]

"....police fired at the buffalo with semiautomatic rifles...

How come theirs are called semiautomatic rifles and ours are called assault weapons?

[muawiyah]

There's this image of a buffalo bellowing out "You'll never take me alive coppers!"

[Gary - Peters]

120 rounds. ???

How come all the cops are shooting 120 rounds these days.

[Northern Yankee]

Did they grill their suspects afterward?LOL...

Oh give me a home where the buffalo roam...

150 shots?!... someone not hitting their target?

[76834]

You got that right.
Preferred weapon here would be .308, 303 British or my favorite 30.06
Back in the old days they didnt call em "Buffalo Guns" for nothing.

[Argus]

There ought to be a rule that any animal that escapes from a slaughterhouse gets a lifetime reprieve. Free the Buffalo 5!

[handy old one]

Who do we grill the escapee or the lousy shots??

[maestro]

?.....COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Police Monday shot and... MURDERED... five buffaloes that escaped from a meatpacking plant?

naw

/serial murderers?

[Northern Yankee]

Whoops... I guess that's 120. That makes a big difference.

[cripplecreek]

I watched a city cop kill a deer that got hit by a car one morning. After watching him shoot the poor thing 4 times I decided I didn't want to be anywhere near a shootout that cop was involved in.

[NonValueAdded]

"RUN! MAKE A BREAK FO...ohhhh grass"

LOL

I wonder what the California Cows would say.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

120 shots.....sounds like a replay from here in LA ...except the target here was an EVIL SUV...

[Frank_Discussion]

Ten cops with 12-round clips?

[Dan from Michigan]

"With the great white buffalo, he's gonna make a final stand...." - Ted Nugent