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Police kill charging cow who sent officer airborne
AP ^ | 07/08/2014

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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TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Local News; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cheese; copshootscow; cow; cowatwalmart; cowcrasheswedding; cowtossescop; cryingoverspiltmilk; dairyproducts; donutwatch; madcow; tapdancingcow
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To: Safetgiver

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!?!”


41 posted on 07/09/2014 10:42:33 AM PDT by TigersEye ("No man left behind" means something different to 0bama.)
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To: lee martell

The cow TOSSED the cop just before tap dancing on the man’s vehicle.

Profound disrespect for authoritah!


42 posted on 07/09/2014 10:48:12 AM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I’ve been sent airborne by a cow before. Uh, long story . . . she was just messin’ with me.


43 posted on 07/09/2014 11:06:41 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Bigg Red

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.


44 posted on 07/09/2014 11:06:44 AM PDT by PrairieLady2
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To: Responsibility2nd
Those cops might want to stay clear of the bull for a loooong time.


45 posted on 07/09/2014 11:10:49 AM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: Tupelo

Jerseys got horns, IIRC.

This one needs a steak dish named in its honor, IMO.


46 posted on 07/09/2014 11:25:38 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: elcid1970
re: Jerseys got horns, IIRC.

Yep, but they are usually surgically removed and they usually have bigger tits.
Pretty hollywood-eske dontcha think.

47 posted on 07/09/2014 11:39:04 AM PDT by Tupelo
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To: Tupelo

Everything was going fine until the cow barked.


48 posted on 07/09/2014 12:02:22 PM PDT by glyptol
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To: Responsibility2nd; a fool in paradise; RichInOC

MOO...
BANG!
...MOOO!


49 posted on 07/09/2014 12:15:45 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

[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...”


50 posted on 07/09/2014 12:21:30 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: PrairieLady2

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.


51 posted on 07/09/2014 1:39:53 PM PDT by Bigg Red (31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
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To: Tupelo

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.


52 posted on 07/09/2014 1:58:47 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: mabarker1; SgtBob; B4Ranch; prisoner6
terrorist cow???Quick Translation...
53 posted on 07/09/2014 2:55:12 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Chode
THAT IS TOO FUNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

54 posted on 07/09/2014 3:00:50 PM PDT by mabarker1 (Please, Somebody Impeach the kenyan!!!! Once again dingy hairball, STFU!!! You corrupt POS!!!)
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To: mabarker1
LOL...!!! dad, Dad, DAD, DAD, DAD!!! I GOTTA GO NOW
55 posted on 07/09/2014 3:11:48 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


56 posted on 07/09/2014 6:21:31 PM PDT by MasterGunner01
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To: elcid1970

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.


57 posted on 07/09/2014 8:48:34 PM PDT by Tupelo
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