[a fool in paradise]

They gonna have a leash law for cows now?

[rktman]

blm plot after “obtaining” a Bundy branded moo?

[cripplecreek]

Pretty much standard for the farmer to be responsible if someone hits a cow.

[Vigilanteman]

Unless the law has changed since I was a pup, Bundy is right: maintenance of fences alongside Interstate Highways are the responsibility of the transportation department.

It would be a different story if the cows broke through a fence alongside some local road or farm road and thence wandered on to the Interstate.

The reason for the fence maintenance requirements date back to the Eisenhower administration when the interstate system was first authorized for national defense purposes. High speed highways and critters, whether local livestock or wildlife, present a potentially lethal hazard to travelers. The fence is the last line of defense.

Anyone who has driven through the more desolate parts of I-80 in Wyoming and Nebraska will notice fences along most of the entire length save for a few sections where the terrain makes the erection of a fence nearly impossible. These areas, where there is a risk for wildlife, are marked with warning signs about wildlife crossing.

[caligatrux]

Bundy might have a point, assuming he wasn't negligent:

NRS 568.355  “Open range” defined.  As used in NRS 568.360 and 568.370, unless the context otherwise requires, “open range” means all unenclosed land outside of cities and towns upon which cattle, sheep or other domestic animals by custom, license, lease or permit are grazed or permitted to roam. (Added to NRS by 1983, 235)

NRS 568.360  Duties of owners of domestic animals with respect to domestic animals upon highway.
1.  No person, firm or corporation owning, controlling or in possession of any domestic animal running on open range has the duty to keep the animal off any highway traversing or located on the open range, and no such person, firm or corporation is liable for damages to any property or for injury to any person caused by any collision between a motor vehicle and the animal occurring on such a highway.
2.  Any person, firm or corporation negligently allowing a domestic animal to enter within a fenced right-of-way of a highway is liable for damages caused by a collision between a motor vehicle and the animal occurring on the highway.(Added to NRS by 1965, 644; A 1983, 235)

[bunkerhill7]

Take-Home Road kill is compensation to suffice the claim.

From the tort:

“You break it, you buy it”

[SamuraiScot]

officials are refuting

That would be "disputing," right?

That is, if the reporter (or his editor) were, you know, objective—as opposed to a herd animal that has gotten the message that the Authorities must not be questioned by their subjects.

[pgyanke]

... when her car hit one of the rancher’s cows on I-15 about 10 miles from his Bunkerville ranch.

The April 14 crash came two days after Bundy and his armed supporters made national news by forcing federal authorities to abruptly abandon an impound operation on public land...

Outside of some pretty clear precedent on open range law, how do they know it was Bundy who was negligent? Given the timing of all of this, it could very easily have been the BLM who was negligent with his cattle.

[DoodleDawg]

The collision with the cow sent Danielle Beck and her boyfriend, Matthew Zanatta, to the hospital.

Probably didn't do much for the cow, either.