Monday 26 October 2009

Is nobody else worried about this?

Regular readers will no doubt remember this incident of a week ago, when a cow in Australia managed to derail a train, although no humans were hurt. Not much of a result from the bovines' point of view, but not only are they learning fast, they appear to be able to communicate on an international basis. In today's Metro we read this:

A wayward water buffalo caused a train to crash, killing 18 people and wounding 39. The animal wandered on to the tracks south of Cairo when a train struck it on Saturday night. The packed first-class passenger train then ploughed through the wreckage at high speed...

Thanks to Pavlov's Cat for the email.

1 comments:

Pavlov's Cat said...

ta for linkage

I think it's time we started retro-fitting cow Catchers

It's only going to get worse