I don’t think anyone “just threw them overboard”. I could see them using winches/cranes to haul them up and out but the article makes it sounds as if a couple of guys just picked them up and hoisted them over the rail.
I don’t think anyone “just threw them overboard”.
Many people now days do not have any real concept of what it is like to handle farm animals, and I would expect that to go triply for journalists. Over the weekend, there was an interesting thread on an article about a stray “pet” pig, with the article focusing on how the pig was basically a member of the family, and barely mentioning that it weighed 400 pounds and probably was a little out of place in the city.
Milo of Croton...Also famous for eating LOTS!
He did his time as a Grunt using a club!
There is a saying that goes back to Milo of Croton: lift a calf everyday and when you grow up, you can lift a cow. The story goes that Milo, a famous wrestler in ancient Greece, gained his immense strength by lifting a newborn calf one day when he was a boy, and then lifting it every day as it grew. In a few years, he was able to lift the grown cow. The calf grew into a cow at about the rate that Milo grew into a man.
I was going to post “The article should have been about those guys throwing the cows overboard.”