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I know the story, but the truck overturn around 7am, cows get loose on the street from then, the last cow gets shot at 2pm. so what you are saying is that there was no way of dealing with this properly?

It just shows that TO cops, in this case OPP, has no training when it comes to out of ordeneray situations, there was a cop actually trying to direct the cow into the trailer, as if the cow knew road signs and had to merge :lol:

They should have dealt with the situation a bit better. For f***s sake, they had enough time to fly a cowboy from Calgary if the had to do! Obviously you can't force a cow into the trailer with directions, or with force. They were spooking the cow hence why it started to attack, or rather panic.

It just bothers me to see how they reacted to this case, I basically grow up with cops in the last couple of years, I have lot of respects for them, but sometimes they just get on my nerves. Especially when they are trying to build their public relations status, this doesn’t really help them.

And please remember guns don’t kill cows, people do :lol:

OAC_Sparky,Mar 21 2008, 03:30 PM Wrote:Actually, if you watched the news, the cow that got shot charged a number of people, including a CHCH cameraman and reporter --  the cameraman had to leap out of the way and the cow ran down the camera and tripod.

As much as you would want to knock the cop, weighing the circumstances; the threat to public safety, property damage and the likelihood that the cow was heading for the slaughterhouse anyways, etc, the decision to put it down probably wasn't bad -- save for the fact that now you have 1300 pounds of animal that can't move under its own steam. It would have been a lot less work if the cow could move itself onto the truck.

I find it funny though, people's reaction to this. Growing up outside of Windsor (in a small town called McGregor) I used to work on farms, from the age of 11 until I was 16 (hey, if you want to hang out with your friends, you would help out with the chores). Dairy farms, turkeys, cows, pigs. Slaughtered chickens with my own hands. I think sometimes people forget that meat doesn't magically appear on the shelves at the grovery store.
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