Pump those crazy delicious legs!
GREAT FALLS, Mont. - A cow that escaped a slaughterhouse dodged vehicles, ran in front of a train, braved the icy Missouri River and took three tranquilizer darts before being recaptured six hours later. News of the heifer's adventures prompted a number of people to offer to buy the animal.
Cow Escapes Meat Plant, Dodges SUV, Train - Yahoo! News
I loved reading about this cow's daring hijinks.
Reminds of a time when I was driving to work when I was still in college in NC. My drive took me a past a small farm and that day somehow the cows had gotten out and were causing havok. Cows were everywhere, azaleas being eaten, the cornfield getting smashed, and I think I saw some smoking and spraying graffitti on the barn. One cow near the side of the road kept turning his head up and mooing louder than I'd ever heard a cow moo. MOOOO! MOOOO! MOOOO!
I rolled down the window and yelled "Rock on cow brother! ROCK ON! MOOO!!"
I'm not sure why I did that, but it felt good. Perhaps it's the result of all that childhood exposure to The Far Side.
Posted January 7, 2006 2:43 PM
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This is another public service announcement- you can believe it, or you can doubt it. I'm currently reading a book by Victor Frankl, the inventor of logotherapy. He says he once asked a small group of people about "giving meaning to one's suffering" in life, and as a for-instance, when a chimp is injected with chemicals to test whether or not medicines would be safe for humans, can it comprehend that its suffering is for a higher purpose? They all agreed that the chimp has no clue, so then he says, can we be so sure about our own human suffering and it not having any meaning in the great cosmos?
With demand in consumption habits in recent years, threats to health and safety, etc. maybe that cow was just mad.
David Boudreau, January 10, 2006 12:28 AM
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