Monday 28 November 2011

"Cow shot dead after Darlington rampage"

Spotted by Joseph Takagi, Pavlov's Cat and Julia M at the BBC:

A cow has been shot dead by police after it escaped from a cattle market and took to the streets in Darlington.

It escaped at 09:00 GMT on Monday during the Darlington Auction Market in the Teesside town. The cow rammed into vans and parked cars on the Victoria Embankment area, and police said it ran towards people.

Officers said it was distressed and had to be shot dead by an armed officer after they and members of the public struggled to control it. Police said no-one was hurt during the incident.

5 comments:

WitteringsfromWitney said...

Darlington? You actually mean the police shot the cow and not Ed Miliband?

You just cannot get reliable public sector staff these days, can you?

Anonymous said...

Milli.B is a sheep. Gets shot next time!
(this comment is meant as a joke and in no way constitutes a tangible threat to wool 'ed)
;-)

Mark Wadsworth said...

WFW, Anon, wot? Soft southern wuss Ed Miliband is MP for Darlington? How did that happen?

Anonymous said...

I don't suppose the cow agrees that no one got hurt.

A K Haart said...

"Officers said it was distressed and had to be shot dead"

Seems as bit drastic. Wasn't counselling tried first?