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Thursday, June 26, 2008
Cows with calves dangerous shocker
Hmm.
An incomer walks her dog through a field of lovely moo-moos with baby moo-moos. Oh look, they’re coming over to play with Fluffy Barksdale. Oh fuck, I’ve been trampled. Arse.
Do people really need to be told that cows with young calves might not take to kindly to an unfamiliar predator coming in their proximity? Are they that fucking stoopid?
Apparently so, from the local rag.
At Preston County Court yesterday, His Lordship Deputy Judge Howarth was told that Miss McKaskie, a company director, had recently moved to the village.
Mr Cameron found her unconscious in the field. She could remember little of the incident.
The cows, which had calves with them, may have been scared by her pet dog, Preston County Court was told. Cows with calves can be unpredictable, posing a risk to members of the public crossing a field, said Christopher Purchas QC.
Under common law, he said, farmers are legally obliged to warn people of the danger.
Jesus H Christ on a bike.
OK, I’m from a farming family and I have had to do a runner from many feisty cows with young calves (up to a fortnight old is the most dangerous) so I know from first hand experience, but are people really that naive? It would seem so.