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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Maybe he should have hit it between the eyes with a hatchet. Only question I have, was it his cow to butcher?
They looked like little tornados.
They were cooked so it didn't seem too bad but the contestants acted like they were eating fresh turds.
I devoutly hope they rinse those things off before they pack them.
its a nice feeling when you do for yourself...it really is...
You dudes are disgusting!
You’re offending the sensibilities of suburbia.
We wacked a sheep for Labor Day; gave the scraps to the dogs and chickens- we beleieve wholeheartedly in closed-loop recycling.
- 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.
Just out of curiosity, how would a cow bleeding out in your neighbor’s driveway inconvinience you?
“Then the mooing stopped”
That almost always happens right after the gunshot.
Just got finished eating two big pieces of beef tenderloin and all i can say is Thank You Cow.
With or without ginger sauce?
That reminds me... where’s the cow you found in your tree - aircow? We’re planning our trip to your barbeque of said cow.
Once again Fotki has locked me out of my paid account. You did make that payment for me?
“That reminds me... where’s the cow you found in your tree - aircow? We’re planning our trip to your barbeque of said cow.”
I don’t know about cows but here’s a thread about a moose in a tree
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2774915/posts
I grew up in a house with a shared driveway downhill from my neighbor.
The blood would run down into my yard.
I’d have to get out a hose and rinse things down.
“Then the mooing stopped.”
This would be an awesome last line to a horror novel.
One October when I was four, my grandpa and grandma butchered a hog in the yard. Big steaming kettle of boiling water, washing and rinsing everything, then making the packaged meat for the freezer, the sausages, roasts, rendering the flaked lard, making lye soap the following month. They had ten children, who all helped at some point. I just watched, fascinated.
My husband used to hang deer to butcher them. When we moved onto our little farm, the neighbors laid a beautiful big fresh doe out behind our woodpile for a housewarming present (January) not exactly in season, but since we never had any idea who our benefactor was, no problem.
1. “Then the mooing stopped.”
2. “the cow was in the process of losing its head.”
I’ll leave it to a vote.
I'm having a Moo Bang flashback here. Oh, how I wish I could find that link...
I think I need a hug.
Any pieces that you don’t want, save and use for dog food or coyote bait.
Many of the anti-Palin zombie posters crave brains. Mmmmmm... brains...
Harpo, you really need to take a look at the link in Sling’s post #56
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