Buleste
11th August 2008, 11:30
Just found this little news item.
A cow has escaped from an abattoir, leaping down a manhole and fleeing for a mile through a town's underground sewage system, before being captured in northern France.
The 90-stone animal was finally located beneath a church in Noeux-les-Mines, near Calais, after the vicar reported a muffled 'mooing sound' coming from beneath the building.
Council sewage workers found the cow wedged in a tight bend in the subterranean tunnel, and it was sedated before being dragged back to the surface using a winch and a crane.
But it was later put down due to injuries sustained in the rescue operation.
It's at times like this i wish we could add mp3's to the posts.
A cow has escaped from an abattoir, leaping down a manhole and fleeing for a mile through a town's underground sewage system, before being captured in northern France.
The 90-stone animal was finally located beneath a church in Noeux-les-Mines, near Calais, after the vicar reported a muffled 'mooing sound' coming from beneath the building.
Council sewage workers found the cow wedged in a tight bend in the subterranean tunnel, and it was sedated before being dragged back to the surface using a winch and a crane.
But it was later put down due to injuries sustained in the rescue operation.
It's at times like this i wish we could add mp3's to the posts.