This story, if true, just makes my blood boil. Apparently an elderly rancher was called after one of his bulls got hit in the road. He found the bull out in front of his place with a broken leg - it clearly had to be put down.
So, our rancher returns to home to retrieve a front loader to haul it back with and a rifle to kill it with. Little .204 Ruger - you don't need much when you are just going to shoot it in the back of the head and put it out of its misery.
Well, he never got the chance to do that. While back at the house, a couple of sheriff's deputies pull up and start blazing away at it willy-nilly with their AR15's. By the time our rancher got back, the bull was all shot up in all the wrong places and mighty pissed off about it.
The old duffer decided the poor bull had had enough, got around behind it to shoot it in the back of the head, when one of the deputies grabbed him and jerked him around. Then one of the deputies started shooting again - only this time, at the old rancher. They killed him.
Plenty of witnesses to this event, since the old man had a few relatives over for dinner. The deputies have been put on "administrative leave" while a local P.D. investigates.
Unbelievable.
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