Posted on 06/10/2005 9:48:51 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
Friday, 10 June, 2005, 10:08 GMT 11:08 UK
'Killer cow' arrested in Nigeria
Police in Nigeria have detained a cow after it killed a bus driver.
The stray animal attacked the man from behind as he was urinating on a motorway near the country's commercial city of Lagos, a police spokesman said.
"As the man fell down, the cow repeatedly hit him with its hooves and horns until he died," spokesman Olubode Ojajuni told the AFP news agency.
Mr Ojajuni said police were now seeking the cow's owner who would be charged for failing to control the animal.
Several bystanders were also injured in the incident before the horned African cow was arrested.
Some people demanded the animal be shot on the spot, but a police chief in the Ojo district of Lagos ordered it to be taken alive.
"The cow went mad, ran into a bus driver and knocked him down. Efforts to revive him were fruitless," Mr Ojajuni told Reuters news agency.
"You know what it will take to arrest a mad cow?" one of the policemen taking part in the operation was later quoted as saying by a local newspaper.
"We applied ingenuity and arrested the cow, which is now being detained at the station," he said.
Killer cow? What has Rosie O'Donnell done now?
That cow had it figured out. If cows were more aggressive animals (like cape buffalo), we wouldn't be able to use them as a main source of meat. Think about it.
The "Secret" cow level on Diablo II can get pretty ugly. Moooooooo!
Priceless!
I've feared this day for many years. It has come to pass (shudder). The cows have decided to rise up and end their oppression in a worldwide bloodbath. Lord help us all...(running for basement and unused millenium stash slug shells)
The cow's in stable condition...it's being kept in a barn.
Too bad the bus driver didn't look the udder way. Or better yet, cudn't he just hold it til the next comfort stop?
I'll have to take the cows side on this one! I'd be offended if I saw some guy peeing in public too, especially near my food source. That'll teach him!
Darwin's Cow will not have a chance to spread its DNA, I suspect.
Animals are totally out of control lately! Crows, spiders, cows. Oh, the humanity!
It could've been worse!
It's just the beginning of the uprising.
Cows with guns http://www.3dweb.no/galleri/stuestolbm/bilder/anim1.swf
That motorway must have had a lot of sentimental meaning for the cow. He'll get off if he claims temporary insanity.
The cow will claim udder madness.
had a wife that she had eaten...
A Lesbian cannnabilistic cow?! Just damn!
HAD A WIFE??? What are you saying? I don't get it.
Next, I'll be getting e-mail that starts with, "GREETINGS. I AM DR. OVIMBI ABACHA, TRUSTEE FOR THE FORTUNE OF THE BUS DRIVER WHO WAS TRAGICALLY KILLED BY A MAD COW IN LAGOS, NIGERIA. YOUR NAME WAS GIVEN TO ME AS THAT OF A TRUSTWORTHY PARTNER..." etc, etc.
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