“Bring me a live cow over to the table! I’ll carve off what I want and RIDE THE REST HOME!”
Posted on 09/07/2011 8:14:23 PM PDT by flowerplough
Charges may ensue for an Ogden man who startled the neighbors by butchering a cow in his driveway over the weekend.
Police were called to the scene at 1:44 p.m. Sunday after the cow's owner began harvesting the animal. A patrolman was responding to a caller who saw a cow being trailered to the home in the 2700 block of Gramercy Avenue.
The caller then reported hearing the cow's audible mooing, followed by what sounded like a gunshot, said Police Lt. Troy Burnett. Then the mooing stopped.
The patrolman's report said when he arrived at the scene a half-block above Monroe Boulevard, "the cow was in the process of losing its head," Burnett said.
The man sawing at the animal's neck, the owner of the beef, denied shooting the cow on the premises, telling the officer the animal had been dispatched outside the city limits.
The officer took the information and filed a report that will be screened by the city attorney's office for possible charges, Burnett said.
"I assume the patrolman had them make arrangements to do the butchering out of plain view," he said.
"It boggles my mind," Burnett said. "It's not illegal, but it's absurd that people would think slaughtering a cow in their driveway is OK. Maybe on the west side of the county on one of the farms. But in the middle of a high density residential area?"
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“Bring me a live cow over to the table! I’ll carve off what I want and RIDE THE REST HOME!”
Did the pet pit bull get the scraps?
I butcher deer and feral hogs in my back yard every hunting season.
This would never happen. in Gramercy Park.
The salient point; and at which point the police should normally butt out.
Lack of discretion, indifference to neighbors' sensibilities, less than hygienic; but not a police matter...except for the lying to the officer about shooting it outside the city limits: BUSTED!
I would hope so.
Be afraid when you hear an agent of the government say this.
Cows are routinely sold for meat. Steers tend to bring a few more cents per pound than cows because they will fatten up faster in the feed lots.
More than half of the McBurgers you buy are old (and I mean OLD) milk cows.
On butchering in the driveway, I prefer a pulley attached to a stout overhead beam. Rope or cable winches the body up off the ground. Much easier to do neat, clean work.
That’s why I won’t buy property in a restricted subdivision. lol I’m too used to living 12 miles out on a farm with the closest neighbor two miles away.
“1. “Then the mooing stopped.”
2. “the cow was in the process of losing its head.”
Both the above statements apply to most Democrat congresswomen, especially Wasserman-Schultz and Mad Max Waters. Oops, left out Nanny Pelousy.
Picked from trees.
In the mouth and out the butt?
You forgot tongue and brains....some people think tongue correctly fixed is great....I cannot get my mind around eating brains tho...
I once read a magazine article on how efficient the beef industry had become .... they likened it to pork, where there was even a market for the bung.... next sentence they were saying that the number one beef bung customer was Korea until McBurgers came along.
Now that puts a new spin on a big Mac!
I’ve never understood the whole HOA thing. Good neighbors are good neighbors even if they have big dogs and rusty pickups and bad neighbors are bad neighbors even if they have clean yards and BMWs.
Yeah, I don’t really want a steer bleeding out in my neighbor’s driveway, but a good neighbor will grill a couple porterhouses and open a couple good beers in exchange for the inconvenience.
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