From The Herald Sun:
Oscar Wilcox's wife told police that her husband was working on a fence on the Port St Lucie ranch in Florida when she heard him scream, TCPalm.com said. She drove to the pasture and witnessed the bovine, a crossbreed with 30-45cm horns, "attacking" her 70-year-old husband.
"She was able to hit the cow several times with the truck to get it off of her husband," a St Lucie County Sheriff's Office report said.
Mr Wilcox had shot the cow with a .22 calibre pistol but lost the weapon during the assault. Mr Wilcox's wife used the gun to shoot the animal several times in the face and drive it away, TCPalm.com saidd. The gun was loaded with "ratshot" cartridges, which contain small pellets.
Mr Wilcox was airlifted to Lawnwood Regional Medical Centre & Heart Institute in Fort Pierce. The report said the woman told police that the cow "has always been nasty and had attacked her about a week ago causing bruises".
No wonder he's never around
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6 comments:
Mr Wilcox had shot the cow with a .22 calibre pistol but lost the weapon during the assault.
That's classic.
A .22? And loaded with (effectively) a shotgun cartridge? He'd have been better off with a knobkerrie.
JH, D, I don't know much about fire arms, but he does seem to have been rather feebly armed (had he not just dropped the bloody thing anyway).
But hats off to the Mrs for driving into the cow, finding reverse, finding first again, driving into it again, and somehow managing to retrieve the gun (from the ground, presumably?) while driving a car.
Compare a .22 with a .44, and assume bullets. The latter has twice the diameter, so if bullets were the same shape, and if muzzle velocity were the same, the .44's bullet would have 8 times the momentum. That is to say, would be likely to vex the cow more.
But yeah, the bloody thing didn't fire bullets anyway, it was loaded with "pellets" - multiple small balls designed to inconvenience rats and likely to do little to a cow but annoy it.
D, what interests me is that the weapon was described as a 'pistol' and Mrs W shot the animal 'several times in the face', so it must have had a magazine or something. Even if only loaded with pellets, I can imagine that this would have done more than annoy the cow.
A magazine or, for all I know, a revolver; but it's being fired at an animal whose coat is essentially hairy leather. Perhaps she hit it in the face, perhaps not. It could do nasty damage to the eyes - but it's tricky to hit something with a pistol, especially if you're not used to using one.
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