Video: Escaped Cows Stampede Pico Rivera Neighborhood

PICO RIVERA, CA — A herd of cows stampeded through the streets of Pico Rivera Tuesday night after breaking free from a slaughterhouse. The stampede sent one person to a hospital, and a Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy shot one of the cows amid the chaos.

I felt bad for the cows. They knew what fate lay ahead for them — something bad —and made a bid for freedom. No, I don’t eat anything with 4 legs.

In the classic political book (one of my all time favorites despite disagreeing with the Left) Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968 by Norman Mailer he actually discerns this.

He describes the horrors of the Chicago slaughterhouses and the all day long slashing work of one shirtless employee in the stifling heat, splashing blood and standing in pools of it.

Then he says outside, far from the place of their doom, the cows seem to sense death somehow, making uneasy sounds and acting reluctant despite no possible evidence.

This ties in with the later blood flying from the heads of protesters later when thousands refused to leave before police were sent in by Mayor Daley to round them up.

A guilty pleasure of mine is re-reading the passages of "the increasingly conservative" Mailer on blacks. He wonders if he feels this anger at them now what are the average Americans feeling in surges about their rioting and looting.

Reviewer: Mailer predicting the volatility of white voters' anger and resentment against African-Americans in response to debates over white guilt, when the author ominously foretells, "...political power of the most frightening sort [to be] obviously waiting for the first demagogue who would smash the obsession and free the white man of his guilt..." Mailer recognized and dryly tells McCarthy's daughter that "we will be fighting for forty years." Mailer laments the behavior, style and habits of some Blacks, reveals doubts about the ultimate effects of race riots in major cities and expresses that Blacks should collectively do a better job of policing the unproductive members of their own community."

One great scene: The cheerful soon to be Dem. candidate Hubert H. Humphrey in his hotel suite heard the rioting sounds and decided to open the window and lean out to look down. Just then a big wave of tear gas went into his face and he choked and gasped for air.

To fatten up a cow, you feed them extra food in addition to the grass they graze on in the field. These pressed alfalfa & molasses nuggets rattle in a bucket, so a cow can be fooled by almost anything in a bucket that will rattle like them. A cow will follow someone forever if it thinks it can get more tasty food from a bucket. When we were kids we even fed the cows by hand. Their long raspy tongues trying to get a nugget or any kind of feed out of our hands would make us giggle. Come to think of it, they would lick you just to get the salt from your skin.

I had a boxer. Had been making all different flavors of fudge to put in tins for Christmas gifts. Chocolate...with and without nuts, peanut butter, and vanilla/chocolate layered. Left it all setting out on the counter in the kitchen and went to work and was going to finish when I got home. When I returned it was all gone, every single bite. And the dog wasn’t looking so good. lol I rushed her to the vet where they gave her some kind of med to make her throw it all up....then she was fine. I learned my lesson about leaving ANYTHING out.

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