RE: Man Killed by Cow
Tuesday 4th February 2003
Man Killed by Cow
Black cow at night...
Discussion
"Funnily" enough I had a similar accident myself in the USA, though I was on a motocycle and I lived to tell the tale. It was in rural Idaho and if the cows get out of the fields they like to lie on the warm tarmac.
It cost me a nearly a year of double vision and a wrist operation plus several months off work. My travel insurance and UK private healthcare took care of the medical costs. There were plenty of lawyers who would have helped me sue but the cow, and hence the owner, could not be identified and there were a number of ranches it could have come from.
I eat beef with additional enthusiasm these days.
It cost me a nearly a year of double vision and a wrist operation plus several months off work. My travel insurance and UK private healthcare took care of the medical costs. There were plenty of lawyers who would have helped me sue but the cow, and hence the owner, could not be identified and there were a number of ranches it could have come from.
I eat beef with additional enthusiasm these days.
What a way to go!!!!!
By the way ive got a simalar story to tell. It was one wet febuary morning last year and an electrician was driving to work. He was going down a steep hill at 7.00am, when there's a cows in the road he could not avoid this cow. The cow hit his wing of his peougeot 405, he turned round down the road came back there was no sign of the cow. So he rang the police, they were more intrested in giving him a breath test rather than finding the injured cow. As he had no alcohol in his body so they let him go. After the police had gone he went to the nearest farm. where he heard the cow in agony in a barn. so he knocked on the farm house door told the farmer what had happened (because he was worried about this injured cow) the farmer said no not one of my cows. As he walked away he looked at the mess the bloody cow had made, so he drove to work.
On his way back from work he went back to where he hit the cow and there was a great big hole in the fence big enough for a cow to get through.
anyway thats enough of that tale.
>> Edited by dan the man on Friday 7th February 19:52
By the way ive got a simalar story to tell. It was one wet febuary morning last year and an electrician was driving to work. He was going down a steep hill at 7.00am, when there's a cows in the road he could not avoid this cow. The cow hit his wing of his peougeot 405, he turned round down the road came back there was no sign of the cow. So he rang the police, they were more intrested in giving him a breath test rather than finding the injured cow. As he had no alcohol in his body so they let him go. After the police had gone he went to the nearest farm. where he heard the cow in agony in a barn. so he knocked on the farm house door told the farmer what had happened (because he was worried about this injured cow) the farmer said no not one of my cows. As he walked away he looked at the mess the bloody cow had made, so he drove to work.
On his way back from work he went back to where he hit the cow and there was a great big hole in the fence big enough for a cow to get through.
anyway thats enough of that tale.
>> Edited by dan the man on Friday 7th February 19:52
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