Reports are a bit thin on the ground this month, because nearly all the search results link to the 56-year old woman who was killed on the 15th:
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Bavaria 1 September: Am Mittwoch gegen 11.45 Uhr kam es in einem landwirtschaftlichen Betrieb im Gemeindebereich Hauzenberg zu einem Betriebsunfall mit einer leicht verletzten Person. Die 21-jährige Betriebshelferin war damit beschäftigt, Kühe von einer Freilaufstallung in den neu errichteten Melkroboter zu treiben...
A 21-year old assistant was herding cows into a newly installed milking machine, one cow squashed her against the wall, causing moderate injuries. She was taken to hospital.
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Hesse: 2 September: Eine für den Tod einer Frau im Lahn-Dill-Kreis verantwortliche Kuh ist wieder eingefangen worden. Das Tier und sein Kalb standen am Freitagmorgen bei ihrer Herde, nachdem sie mehrere Tage verschwunden waren, wie die Polizei mitteilte. Die Kuh sei daraufhin betäubt worden, um an ihr mögliche Spuren des Angriffs auf eine 57-Jährige zu sichern...
A cow which had trampled a 57-year old rambler to death after having escaped, and which had then disappeared into the forest has been caught again. The cow was anaesthetised to enable the police to collect forensic evidence of her guilt (or otherwise) and then returned to her owner.
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Bavaria 12 September: Am Montagvormittag, 12. September, ist ein 67-jähriger Landwirt durch eine Kuh schwer verletzt worden. Das Tier sollte gegen 10.45 Uhr auf einem Hof in der Langen Gasse auf einen Viehanhänger verbracht und zum Schlachthof gefahren werden. Offenbar ahnte die Kuh, was ihr bevorstand; sie wehrte sich vehement...
A 67-year old farmer was badly injured when he tried to load a cow into a transporter to take her to the slaughterhouse. The cow appears to have guessed what was afoot and defended herself vigourously. She fled to the hayloft. The farmer tried to drag her down again with a rope tied to her but was thrown against the wall. He was taken to hospital with serious but no life threatening injuries.
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Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 15 September: Eine 56 Jahre alte Bäuerin ist im eigenen Stall in Scharstorf Landkreis Rostock von einer Kuh angegriffen und tödlich verletzt worden. Wie ein Polizeisprecher in Rostock sagte, stieß das trächtige Tier ihren Schädel ohne erkennbaren Anlass der Frau zweimal gegen die Brust....
Pregnant cow head butted 56 year old farmer in the chest for no apparent reason. She died in hospital later that evening. The police are treating the death as not from natural causes.
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Saarland 19 September: Mit aufgerissenem Unterleib ist ein 51 Jahre alter Bauer tot auf einer Kuhweide in Hillesheim (Landkreis Vulkaneifel) gefunden worden. Der Bruder des Mannes hatte ihn am Sonntagabend gesucht, weil er nicht nach Hause gekommen war, teilte die Polizei in Trier am Montag mit...
The badly mutilated body of a 51-year old farmer was found in a meadow by his brother. It is not clear whether he was murdered by humans or by cows.
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Rhein Zeitung, 19 September: Gefährliche Angriffe von Kühen sind gar nicht so selten, wie mancher vielleicht annehmen würde. Hier ein Rückblick auf Fälle in Deutschland, der Schweiz und Österreich...
These blokes are muscling in on my territory. They point out that cow attacks are quite common and then list a dozen incidents in the past year-and-a-half. A dozen? They're not even trying, are they?
Friday, 30 September 2011
Central European Cow-Attack Round-up - September 2011
My latest blogpost: Central European Cow-Attack Round-up - September 2011Tweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 14:15
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2 comments:
Talking dogs to a local (Somerset) farmer a couple of years ago; he said he had three collies, but only every took two with him when he went to handle the cows. The other, so herding orientated it was, would immediately start to herd the cows together.
The farmer noted that were he to be in the middle of the cows at the time, he could easily be squashed to death.
Oddly, our dog Pig's dad is a Collie Cowherd on the Somerset Levels.
Cow time baby. Moo
wv "comic" or tragic?
ETB, your farmer friend was taking a very well advised caution. Well done him.
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