dangerous cow, anyone thinks this is not rediculous?
 

Pigs and cows don't get along.. It's a known fact.

It looks rediculouse but we don't know what the cow (bull) was doing before the start of the video.
The cops wouldn't do that without a proper reason.

Common, that wasn't a bull, it wasn't even fully grown cow, it was a calf(i'll admit ,it wasn't a small baby calf).

It's a typical runaway cow, little bit overexited and frisky..
It's not a bacon eating predator, so those pigs had nothing to worry about if they stayed behind the squad car..

If it was a real bull, they would have been dead cause it would have charged after being shot with a weak 9mm.
Little common sense goes a lot further then shooting a cow with a 9.

I can't imagine a good reason to shoot a cow like that, don't they have animal control in the area? Tranquilizer gun??

Cowboy cops!

LOL! Yeah, they never do anything without the proper reason.
They saw an excuse to play with their guns and didn't want to pass it up.
I grew up on a farm and we had dozens of cattle at any one time - hundreds over the years. Never saw a reason to shoot one unless we were going to eat it. If you put that many cop cars with lights flashing near almost any animal it's going to freak out. They should have turned of their lights, gone back to the donut shop and let someone who knew what they were doing deal with the cow.

Exactly. Anyone with even a little livestock experience could have had that animal under control in minutes. The only dangerous thing in that video is those morons driving around and popping off rounds. They should all be embarrassed.

What an idiotic reaction by the police.

It's easy to push around a unarmed animal
 

The old "shoot first and ask questions later" western, shoot on a local back-road near you. No animal or human should be treated in that manner. But arming our livestock is not the answer, hopefully the local news picked up the story and the commander now has to explain this stupid act! It's easy to push around a unarmed animal; I hope those officers never run into someone who has and can use a firearm with a level of skill! This is not India, but killing a unarmed cow is still bad karma.:(
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"If you put that many cop cars with lights flashing near almost any animal it's going to freak out."

Hell Pat, can't blame him, I'd of freaked out too!!!! I wonder about the law sometimes.:(

.......UFB.........this REALLY bothers me. I was raised on a cattle farm. My father was a livestock broker (primarily) who's business it was to buy/hold/sell cattle for human consumption. This video scene is re-G*dd*anm-iculous. That animal is a young steer and to shoot it multiple times with a .38 or what ever they were using is beyond cruel.

I could not finish watching. To be clear here there is a humane way to kill animals for slaughter. It is done everyday with one large shot to the brain so as to be quick, efficient with the least amount of trauma to the living animal

Quebec PD shot two cows that escaped on the way to the slaughterhouse.

Could have been handled better.

I just love how many are bashing the police. Once police are called and are on site, they become responsible for neutralizing the threat of injury to people. If they just packed up and left it alone, then the poor innocent cow trampled a child, you same posters would be calling for the chief's head the same way you are now.
Don't let a 3 minute video be your only source of info. Take a deep breath.

I don't especially like the shooting but I don't have all the info, either.

I agree, the cops were shot happy. Poor form IMO. As for humane ways to kill, that slug to the head merely stuns them, the blade to the throat and the ensuing exsanguination is what kills them. I have witnessed it many times. Slaughter houses are not humane by any means but they are better than multiple stab wounds (think bull fighting) or several rounds that don't provide a quicker death.

Death in any form is not humane but a man has to eat...

In the case of a cow wandering around, or a burning building, or a large number of other situations that would mean getting the people into a secure place and letting someone competent take care of the threat.

When did neutralize become synonymous with shoot and kill?

Mike,

Have to question your statement here. I agree there is a lot of evidence that the processing lines do not always take the time/care to do it right.
Having done it, I can attest a properly placed shot to the head (or even a sledge hammer blow) will dispatch a bovine up to and including a 3 year old bull.

Didn't watch the video. The comments were enough to sicken me.
We have a neighbor who, three decades ago was dangerous around stock, having learned from his alcoholic father. My FIL "had a talk" to him one day after his actions caused the loss of one of our animals and his methods have been vastly improved in the past two decades.

Most people though, having no experience, don't understand how food motivated most bovines are.

When you compare this issue with the treatment of human beings in many countries, it kind of falls off the radar.

Best
Les

Ok, maybe this is how it went down...

Remote location, nearest animal control ~4 hours away, police on site for nearly 3 hours so far. Owner on site as well, tells police "Cow's not right. Been getting more and more aggressive over the last week. He's worries me." As a crowd ( 20 people ) gathers in this small, close knit town, owner says "Hell, just shoot the damn thing." Police access the area and possible threat of injury to onlookers, they go with owner's recommendation.

Nah, not sexy enough. That story will NEVER get any kind of irrational, emotional response. We'll just go with supposition, speculation and condemnation of law enforcement.

so after 3 hrs on scene, that is the best they can come up with?
Owner did not have a weapon capable of doing the job?
I think that they may want to sit down and formulate a plan for the next time,so they can save those twenty people.....

So, what number of hours would satisfy you? Make the 3 a 30, I don't mind. Still doesn't change the intent of the story. It's a speculative account of the incident.
No, the owner did not, this happened in Kali.
Submit your recommendations in writing, please.

too long, not long enough, too quick, not fast enough, just go ahead and say it, there's no pleasing an advanced, complex mind.

If only we all had head mounted cameras and a fantastic central control/command area where a panel of precogs view all of our daily lives and redirects us if we make begin to make an errant decision.

oh please. It looks like a bunch of kids were having fun with their toy guns. Hopefully, there wasn't anyone/kid behind those bushes.

The part I liked the best was the POS in the patrol car that pulled up to the animal with lights and siren. I half expected him to get out and ask for ID.

Somehow I didn't get much of this. What was the wrecker doing? Never did see the pigs.

Doesn't matter. I lived in a small Southern town for a year in the early 90's and saw enough of this hillbilly sch!t to know I'll never even drive through a place like that.

:lol: :lol:

in a few months some rookie will hear..

' well back in 2011 I responded to a loose Cape Buffalo..
took 30 rounds to kill that sucker..'

Rika

pig chit

there was no reason to kill that animal

just a bunch of trigger happy fools with guns
and no respect for private property [the cow]

Docs high blood pressure and coffee help?
 

How much do coffee drive up blood pressure? I had about 4 cups this morning with a client and now my blood pressure is 160/104. I took a tablet of blood pressure med. should I be freaking out by now? My normal resting heart rate is about 65 and it is 75 now. My heart feels like its pounding a little bit. I quit coffeee a few years ago and drink only decafe now, well, not this morning. Any ideas? Coffee never bother me like this. Am I just scaring myself?

WTF did I just see? Are you kidding?

Putting aside the fact that there was NO reason to shoot the cow, what kind of lunatic shoots a cow with a pistol??!?!?! Really? Not one officer had .223 rifle or a shotgun with buckshot in it?

AND putting aside the fact that they did open fire with pistol, what kind of idiot can't make a head shot from 10ft away, with his service weapon, on a COW?!?!? Their head is as big as a freaking garbage can lid!

That was pathetic. Knuckle draggers with gun and uniforms.

Docs, how much coffee drive up blood pressure? Help?
 

How much do coffee drive up blood pressure? I had about 4 cups this morning with a client and now my blood pressure is 160/104. I took a tablet of blood pressure med. should I be freaking out by now? My normal resting heart rate is about 65 and it is 75 now. My heart feels like its pounding a little bit. I quit coffeee a few years ago and drink only decafe now, well, not this morning. Any ideas? Coffee never bother me like this. Am I just scaring myself?

crap, I posted in the wrong place. How do I move it

It happens all the time.

I don't even think I can count the number of friends and family that have been struck down in their prime by a loose calf. These cops did that town a service, with a beast like that on the prowl after dark an entire town could have been wiped off the map.

Really?

Besides being incredibly unnecessary, that was hard to watch.

Who was being Served or Protected there anyway?

Speaking of fishing poles. I have been confronted by territorial(?) farm animals....cows, horses & bulls. Now all you ropin' wranglers may know how to deal with this, but when you're alone & armed only with 8.5 feet of graphite this becomes an issue of personal safety. If one of these SOB just steps on your foot it'll ruin your day. A timely retreat was always my answer....cops don't have that option. The pistol is not a good one but it's better than a fishin' pole.

You think the owner will tell the cops to shoot his walking , moo'ing cash on hooves?Are you nuts?
The cops shooting that cow means the Farmer eats the loss, cause at that point the cow becomes nothing but waste, it can't be used for food no more.. the farmer looses.

If the ower was around he would have herded it back to teh barn on bare feet if he had to..That cow did nothing dangerous, it was just a bit exited as would any animal would if it was chased down by patrol cars with Effing flashing lights on the roof.

It is a demonstration of bad judgement. period.

why not ram it with the cruiser..
dog pile..
beat it senseless with their baton's..
then taze it a couple of times to be sure..
pose for pics...

Rika

they were probably shooting it cause they were worried about denting the cruiser..if the chase prolonged.. and they had just washed it :rolleyes:

Not sure who was being protected, but I'm pretty sure beef is being served.

LOL, that's some funny sheet.

Regardless of the scenario, that was handled poorly. Once the call to take the animal out was made (whether or not that was a good call), it should have been implemented quickly and decisively. Instead we got to watch the Keystone Cops torture an animal to death through their ineptitude.

My version is no more incorrect than yours. Period.
I wasn't quoting fact. Re-read it. For that mater, neither is anyone else on this thread.

they should have called in the same USAF fighter jocks who used to strafe cattle -- those guys KNOW what to do

tell the kids to get in the fraking house till someone that KNOWS what they are doing comes along.
if they need to keep the puplic safe then, keep the public away.
they had enough crusiers to keep the section of road closed in front of the ONE HOUSE in the picture.
then let the cow calm down and eat some grass. or get some border collies to stare the cow down and into a LIVESTOCK trailer.