I was just about to nod off when they featured this story on BBC News 24 (Freeview, channel 80), so I had to drag myself out of bed again and stick it on the 'blog:
A 63-year-old man has been killed and his wife, 67, was critically injured in an attack by a bull in Nottinghamshire. The couple, wearing walking gear, were near the Leicestershire border when it happened at about 1630 GMT on Friday. It is unclear why the bull attacked the pair, who were walking on a footpath near the village of Stanford on Soar.
"Wearing walking gear" near cows? That's like a Mod in full regalia going for a walk on a firing range! The embedded video at the BBC is an absolute delight - it's basically a young BBC reporter, standing in a nondescript field at twilight, who lapses from BBC/Queen's English when pronouncing the words "couple" and"public footpath".
Other highlights from the article:
Police inquiries will now continue in a joint investigation with the Health and Safety Executive. A post-mortem examination is expected to take place early next week.
PS, as Julia M reminds us, cows kill more people than sharks do, item 6 here.
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"A post-mortem examination is expected to take place early next week."
On the walker? Or on the bull?
JuliaM, if it was the bull, it would say 'followed by a sit-down lunch?'
Shades of Kenneth Williams and the insurance medical vet.
JM, that bit puzzled me. He was trampled to death by a bull, fact. The bull was put down by a vet, fact. What more do we need to know?
Strangely enough, in the BBC video, they say quite clearly that the bull will be put down "as soon as the investigation is completed", which suggests that the police intended to question the bull.
Ch, would it be a bit tasteless for the farmer to give all the steaks from the bull to the widow and her two sons? Or would that be a touching gesture?
".. a bit tasteless.."?
Not if the farmer had it prepared as steak tartare.
Revenge is a dish best served cold.
One would hope it would be fairly tasty...
Certainly some precedent from matadors and the bullrings? Some Christian concepts rattling round in there as well?
But yes, from a public relations perspective, probably not optimal.
Took you a while. I saw it and thought - here we go at Mark's. :)
VFTS: "Revenge is a dish best served cold." Damn. I wish I'd thought of that!
Ch, bull rings spring to mind. But doesn't steak have to be hung out to dry for a few days first? Do bull fight spectators get invited back a week later to eat the one they watched being slaughtered?
JH, the post was up within half an hour of me seeing it on the news. I can't work any faster than that.
"for a few days" - you Philistine - for about three weeks.
D, ta for clarification. In which case case UK tourists who go to a bull fight would be invited back three weeks later, but by then they'd be back in Blighty. So all the more steak for Johnny Foreigner.
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