Posted on 06/25/2002 6:02:38 AM PDT by Rodney King
Cows rampage in Norway
In a bizarre series of incidents, two farmers in different parts of the country were hospitalized after being attacked by cows. Elsewhere, four men narrowly missed having their car crushed by a crash-landing cow.
This kind of entertainment - cow pushing, from the Norwegian Idiot Association's annual meeting - is no longer funny
PHOTO: ARVE HENRIKSEN
Friday saw the first attack in the odd cow crime wave. Stian Skoglund, 23, was bashed and trampled by a furious cud-chewer. Stian was helping his girlfriend with her summer job on a farm in Belta in
Standing-room-only at the Idiot Association's annual meetings, no doubt.
You've heard of 'The Running of the Bulls'? Well, Vermont now has 'The Herding of the Heifers.' I am not kidding. This one-day event (First Annual 2002, consisting of walking cows through downtown Brattleboro or someplace) is Vermont's sad attempt to obtain free advertising for the state and the dairy industry here.
As if Civil Unions, Jumpin' Jim Jeffords and the Dairy Compact weren't enough.
I'll bet this is the first time in the history of humanity that those twelve words have been put together in that order.
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