An excellent team effort by the bovine, who are making an early start this year, as reported in The Daily Mail:
John Leslie Ward, 67, was working with his daughter on their Sheffield farm trying to put identity tags onto calves in a barn when he was attacked by the animals. Mr Ward's 21-year-old daughter Katie said her father was thrown into the air by a bull as he attempted to tag the calves. When he landed on the ground, a cow, whose calf Mr Ward had been tagging, began stamping on him....
Just in case you want to hear his daughter's first hand account, the article continues:
She said: '... What happened is all a blur. It happened so fast. We were in the shed together tagging the calves. A bull came up to him and nudged him and then threw him into the air. That's when the mother started on him. All I remember is her jumping on him all over. I know she had all her feet on him."
Emailed in by Pavlov's Cat.
Was it all worth it?
4 hours ago
3 comments:
Here's another example of an unlikely way to die - poor lass.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263095/U-S-Air-Force-captain-Jenna-Wilcox-holiday-Scotland-dies-freak-accident-sports-car-tyre-explodes-lap.html
I wonder what the odds are that the tag he was trying to put on was utterly unnecessary for any worthwhile purpose, and was just an EU requirement?
D, a rare typo from you there.
AMcG, somewhere between 100-1 on and dead cert? Which farmer in his right mind would tag his own cows if it weren't a requirement?
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