Udder Madness in Queens Leads to Bovine Intervention

Photo taken by WhenisaDoorNotHalfaDoor? on flickr

News of free, MSG-laden grilled chicken appears to have found its way into a Queens slaughterhouse, where one cow decided that all she had was one shot to make a run for it and somehow escaped onto the streets of Jamaica, Queens. After being loose for around an hour, the NYPD's Mounted Unit was called in and a trailer normally used for horses brought in to corral her. Initial reports were that she was being taken back to the slaughterhouse, it turns out that she'll be spared and likely brought upstate to Farm Sanctuary. A police spokeswoman told Daily Intel, "We always think that once they've escaped, they've earned the right to go free."

Today was certainly not the first time a farm animal mysteriously found its way onto our streets. Luckily today's cow was corralled peacefully, as opposed to Queenie in 2000, who had to be cornered in a playground and shot with a tranquilizer gun. Previously we've also had:

Lucky Lady, the lamb who ended up being an unsuspecting model for cops who discovered her and began taking cell phone pictures with her
Denny, the pygmy goat who dashed through the Bronx in his slaughterhouse escape
A cow who ran for nearly two miles in Queens with onlookers chanting at it, "Attica! Attica!"
And just a few months ago, a bull who was chased through the streets by an urban cowboy, running all the way to Woodhaven but sadly wasn't able to make it to safe haven as well

Richard Gentles, spokesman for the city’s Animal Care and Control agency, said that the cow was held in a Brooklyn shelter for the afternoon in case any would-be tipper came in with information on her origins. He told the Times, “Well, somebody can come and claim her, but in our experience, nobody has come forward in the past and asked to claim their cow. We haven’t gotten any calls that someone is missing their cow.”

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By Billy Parker in News on May 6, 2009 6:33 PM

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MO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQMbXvn2RNI for a musical take (predating this event).

Kevin Walsh

>>>>Mr. Gentles said officials with the city agency had already contacted Farm Sanctuary, a vegan farm in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York that takes in animals found running loose in New York City.

Huh?!!! That cow was in a slaughterhouse -- it's supposed to be dinner.

www.forgotten-ny.com

Nyctini11

Oh where is Felixthecat with his retarded comments when we need him??

roxanne

How can anyone enjoy Gothamist with all these personal attacks here? It really is unfair to others that we must read all these silly comments. Deal with the issues please and not the person that you may not agree with. Please be courteous to other readers of gothamists.

Nyctini11

Ok copper! Maybe you should take it for what it is and stop wasting everyone's time by writing THE SAME COMMENT ON EVERY SINGLE STORY. And try reading the other post from today on FREEDOM OF SPEECH.

thefacts

Another hilariously apt photo. How do you manage it?

JenChungsBaby

Just set her free in Central Park and let her live out her life there. There used to be sheep on the Sheep Meadow in Prospect Park so why not a cow in Central Park?

JenChungsBaby

Correction -- The Sheep Meadow in Central Park, duh. There were cows and dairies on the Long Meadow in Prospect Park. A wild cow in Central Park would be a great attraction.

jaycjay

"held in a Brooklyn shelter for the afternoon in case any would-be tipper came in"

A would-be cow tipper?

A police spokeswoman told Daily Intel, "We always think that once they've escaped, they've earned the right to go free."

Odds are that sentence has never before been spoken by a police spokesperson.