Friday, 2 April 2010

"Farmer trampled to death by cows in front of his daughter"

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.

3 comments:

dearieem said...

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

Anomaly UK said...

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?

Mark Wadsworth said...

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?