Police gun down rampaging pregnant cow at California State Fair

Sacramento Bee ^ | July 28, 2010 | Kim Minugh and Bill Lindelof

[Second Amendment First]

About 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, UC Davis veterinarians were delivering the cow to the fairgrounds, where she was expected to give birth to her calf before wide-eyed fairgoers as part of the long-standing Livestock Nursery program.

But the cow became agitated and fled, running about 500 yards toward a tunnel connecting to the midway, said Brian May, deputy general manager of the fair.

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Lafayette resident Jennifer Nelson and her children were inside Cal Expo to promote water conservation when a security guard alerted them about the loose cow.

From a distance, they could see the cow penned in by vehicles. Then she heard shots – which she assured her children were the sounds of tranquilizer guns.

Nelson, who spent her childhood summers showing sheep and rabbits at the fair, later learned they were not. She then tried to reassure her children in a different way.

"I said, 'Whatever happened, it must have been a difficult decision,' " Nelson said. "This is an organization that isn't going to willy-nilly make the decision to kill an animal if they could get the situation under control some other way."

[Second Amendment First]

Just days earlier, fair officials were fielding media calls after an equally strange incident: Two armed men – possibly employees of a food vendor – walked into a cash-counting room and left with $100,000 in a bag. They haven't been seen since.

Read more: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/07/28/2919215/police-gun-down-rampaging-pregnant.html#ixzz0uz7ysGKL

[silverleaf]

Special tonight at the fair- veal burgers

[Second Amendment First]

KCRA said that the police on scene did not know how to shoot the cow correctly, and put bullets into the side of the mother cow.

[Responsibility2nd]

“Oh George. Not the livestock!”

[Tijeras_Slim]

LOL

[Second Amendment First]

LOL! Deadstock now.

[Rebelbase]

[Loud Mime]

They should have called in a pro...

[Second Amendment First]

Doesn’t show where the veal is located.

[OKSooner]

Dumbasses. Next time let ‘em give birth in private like anybody else and they won’t freak out like that. Which will mean that they won’t have to send the rentacops to kill it in a grisly fashion in front of the little kids.

[Second Amendment First]

No country for old cows.

[Mountain Mary]

“Special tonight at the fair-veal burgers”

LOL, silverleaf.

[fabian]

And the moral to that story was...never take money that is not yours! Yikes!

[Loud Mime]

Somewhere, PETA is going to get involved in this.

Don't Miss This LA County Fair commercial about COWS

[Responsibility2nd]

All I can say is....

 

Payback is a (female dog)

 

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[Jemian]

Not the livestock

Ummm, not any more.

[Mr. Lucky]

The correct shot is in the forehead with something powerful enough to penetrate the skull.

[SuziQ]

If the Veterinarians were there, didn’t they have a tranquilizer gun or something with which they could have shot darts at the cow? There shouldn’t have been any need to kill the animal.

[SuziQ]

*snicker*

[SuziQ]

Creepiest character ever.