Butchering in the Driveway

[PorscheGAL]

Read this and had to chuckle. Maybe I am different but I think it this was my neighbor, I would go over and ask if I could help in exchange for a couple steaks.

Police called after man butchers cow in his driveway

Police called after man butchers cow in his driveway

By Tim Gurrister
Standard-Examiner staff
Tue, 09/06/2011 - 11:47pm
OGDEN -- Charges may ensue for an Ogden man who startled the neighbors by butchering a cow in his driveway over the weekend.

Police were called to the scene at 1:44 p.m. Sunday after the cow's owner began harvesting the animal. A patrolman was responding to a caller who saw a cow being trailered to the home in the 2700 block of Gramercy Avenue.

The caller then reported hearing the cow's audible mooing, followed by what sounded like a gunshot, said Police Lt. Troy Burnett. Then the mooing stopped.

The patrolman's report said when he arrived at the scene a half-block above Monroe Boulevard, "the cow was in the process of losing its head," Burnett said.

The man sawing at the animal's neck, the owner of the beef, denied shooting the cow on the premises, telling the officer the animal had been dispatched outside the city limits.

The officer took the information and filed a report that will be screened by the city attorney's office for possible charges, Burnett said.

"I assume the patrolman had them make arrangements to do the butchering out of plain view," he said.

"It boggles my mind," Burnett said. "It's not illegal, but it's absurd that people would think slaughtering a cow in their driveway is OK. Maybe on the west side of the county on one of the farms. But in the middle of a high density residential area?"

If evidence confirms the person shot the cow on-site, a charge could be filed of discharging a firearm within the city limits, he said.

Other possible violations could include disorderly conduct or health code violations, he said, the latter question which will be referred to the Weber-Morgan Health Department.

The family reporting the unusual bovine demise called their children indoors before calling police, suspecting something unusual taking place, Burnett said.

If any children had witnessed the butchering, and become upset, that could possibly constitute disorderly conduct, said Burnett and Mike Junk, Ogden city's senior prosecutor.

Junk said disorderly conduct includes language of behavior creating "public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm."

Junk said he hadn't been forwarded the case yet as of Tuesday, but said his review would also include the state's animal cruelty statute. "There are a lot of possibilities."

Lori Buttars, spokeswoman for Weber-Morgan Health Department, said the department had not yet been contacted by police about the cow case.

"We have not started that process," she said. "But we'll work with police as needed." The department had received at least three media calls about the case, she said.

The health department would likely be involved if the meat of the animal was sold without the proper permit, or if complaints surfaced about debris from the slaughter left out to decompose, she said.

Disposal of the carcass would be under the jurisdiction of the state Department of Agriculture, Buttars said.

[Zeke]

speechless

[Burnin' oil]

The authorities should explain to the man that it's not cool to butcher animals in the driveway - have a little consideration for the neighbors, etc., and that should be the end of official involvement.

[TimT]

Heck Ive cut up sharks I've caught in my driveway.... it would usually draw a crowd as many people have never seen a 300# Mako up close..

And I clean and filet the cow bass I catch in an outdoor sink that I have...

A 1000#? cow is pushing the envelope a bit though...If the guy did shoot the cow in his driveway, that might be a concern.

[PorscheGAL]

They talk about disturbing the children. They live in a farming community. It has not been that long ago that most families slaughtered their own dinner.

On a trip to Paris, I left my hotel every morning to see the butcher shop across the street getting their morning delivery. It consisted of whole cows, pigs, etc.

I think people need to get a little perspective.

[Moses]

Originally Posted by PorscheGAL

I think people need to get a little perspective.

They don't grow like this?

[9dreizig]

What ? meat isn't grown on styrofoam trays??

[9dreizig]

DARN YOU TOBRA!! beat my previous post by 10 seconds!

[GG Allin]

Everyone loves a steak, no one wants to see where it came from.

[Gretch]

Buncha pussies

[Heel n Toe]

[futuresoptions]

I would have probably went to see if he needed any help and would of hoped to score a little meat.

[futuresoptions]

Lol John, made me think of O'Brother Where Art Thou? "Oh George, not the livestock!"

[PorscheGAL]

Originally Posted by futuresoptions

made me think of O'Brother Where Art Thou? "Oh George, not the livestock!"

At least it wasn't the horse in the driveway.

[Bill Douglas]

I could be worse. The guy could have been muslim and just cut it's throat and let it bleed to death in his driveway

[Superman]

Higgins once pointed out, and as a country boy myself I noticed the wisdom, that young people today might be regarding violence and other life-and-death matters as trivial because they do not understand the visceral gravity of mortal existence. Hunting game teaches you this. You kill something, and it's dead. You remove its guts and cut it into slices. Pretty eye-opening, if you've never actually participated.

As far as this fellow goes, I hope there are not charges filed and I suspect he will also avoid discharging a firearm within city limits.

In my neighborhood as a child, somebody strung a de-caped bear by the wrists across the front of his carport. Spooky, how human it looked, albeit large-chested and short-legged.

[Tervuren]

I sure hope they don't come after me for slicing the heads off carrots next!!!

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by Bill Douglas

I could be worse. The guy could have been muslim and just cut it's throat and let it bleed to death in his driveway

Well........ if they heard it moo and moan, it still had blood. If this guy started butchering this half ton beast in the driveway you can bet the gutters were running red.

PorscheGal, is that what you mean by getting a little perspective? By watching a bloody slaughter across the street? If you want your children to know where their meat comes from, take them to a farm and cut the head off a turkey or something, OK?

Don't do this in the street. That's just barbaric.

[Math]

a friend of mine witnessed the complete gutting and meat arranging of a goat, on a kitchen table, inside the apartment in a complex...the goat had been dead for half an hour or so...
That’s how his neighbor of African origin does it.
He said once he was done, you'd never would had known what happen, clean up good. Except for the smell...it lingered.

[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by mbrouder

Everyone loves a steak, no one wants to see where it came from.

Sorry but "everyone" is a bit of a wide brush.

There are a few of us on the forum who have butchered before and it does not bother us one bit where it came from.

BTW, it was not grown in a white styrofoam tray...

Joe A