Results tagged “cow”

While investigating former police officer Robert Melia Jr.'s alleged sexual assault on three underage girls, detectives discovered a video in his home that shows him sexually molesting cows in 2006. So animal-cruelty charges were added to the list, but on Wednesday a judge dropped the charges because prosecutors didn't "present enough evidence to jurors that Melia's alleged actions tormented the animals."

Now, it's almost common place (though incredibly exciting and bugging) when a cow escapes a slaughterhouse. But, now, after seeing WABC 7's footage of cows on the loose in New Jersey, it seems that cows just love the road! A number of dairy cows were found on Route 202 and Branchburg police had to channel Old McDonald and round them up. This video is pretty hypnotizing—the cows approach a police cruiser, check it out, and then wander around. Eventually they make it back from the highway to what looks like a farm.

Some follow-up about the story that riveted a city yesterday afternoon: The cow that escaped a Queens halal slaughterhouse is doing fine, seems to be headed upstate to a sanctuary, and has been given the name Molly. But one barber who witnessed the heifer's break for freedom—and the cops chasing her— told the Daily News, "It was bugging. I was worried. I'm not used to seeing stuff like that." Another witness told the Post that the cops said they chased Molly for ten blocks before managing to catch her in a yard. Naturally, the tabloids have the great quotes from residents and workers in the South Jamaica neighborhood:

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."

Last night, a reader told us, "A friend who was on 111st & Jamaica Ave... saw a bull running on the streets chased by NYPD." Well, it was actually a cow (Newsmap called it a "baby cow"), and the Post reports, "The brazen bovine first showed herself on Atlantic Avenue in Woodhaven, Queens, being chased by an urban cowboy - who disappeared along with the animal before cops arrived" around 9 a.m.

Save room for tongue! Bubby’s restaurant, the longtime Tribeca haunt of lettuce-fed models, will now be serving beef exclusively derived from grass-fed steers. Cattle raised on a grass, as opposed to the unnatural method of grain or corn, are much healthier and yield beef lower in saturated fat. While the trend is nothing new, what sets Bubby’s apart is that owner Ron Silver has committed to using every single part of the steer, from “tongue to tail.”