Spotted by Pavlov's Cat in The Independent:
A herd of cows has trampled a man and woman, leaving them with serious injuries. A man in his sixties sustained chest, arm and pelvic injuries, and was airlifted to hospital from a farm near Ledbury, Herefordshire, on Friday, an ambulance spokesman said. A woman believed to be in her fifties sustained a chest injury and suspected fractured ribs, and was in Hereford County Hospital...
The article then mentions a couple of famous cow attack stories of recent years:
... In 2009, the former home secretary David Blunkett broke a rib after being trampled by a cow. In January, a fireman on a 999 call was spared jail after cows, startled by his engine's siren, killed a 75-year-old farmer.
Thereby lulling the reader into a false sense of security by implying that cow attacks are few and far between, which they are not.
Reminder
4 hours ago
3 comments:
Mark, is your attention, perhaps, misplaced?
"'Asbo Bambi' leading cause of 42,000 car crashes"
"Muntjac deer, from southeast Asia, are invading Britain’s cities and towns to scavenge through bins as their population doubles to 2m"
"More than 40,000 car crashes a year, costing millions of pounds, are being caused by deer, led by a boom in muntjacs that are invading cities and towns to scavenge through gardens and dustbins"
(paywalled) http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/Environment/article799611.ece
Bloody foreigners. Coming over here, crashing our cars and muscling our cows and foxes out of their rightful places.
VFTS, oo-er! I'm going to sprint down the shop to see if I can buy a Sunday Times.
oh..its very bad but what are they doing there.They should not be there but this is to be happened.I wish both would get well soon.
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