Police run over calf - reasonable?
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dickymint said:
Cold said:
How did they eventually catch this calf? It wasn't caught by hitting it with a 4x4, but by another method. Possibly a bloke with a wide hat and a lasso?
Instead of all this talk about guns, vets and magic bullets why don't they just do whatever they did after the bumper incident?
I have been asking this for days and in particular how long before it was finally captured and what was this mad rampant killer beast doing in the meantime Instead of all this talk about guns, vets and magic bullets why don't they just do whatever they did after the bumper incident?
I wonder if it's because it was hit that it was captured?
Nibbles_bits said:
dickymint said:
Cold said:
How did they eventually catch this calf? It wasn't caught by hitting it with a 4x4, but by another method. Possibly a bloke with a wide hat and a lasso?
Instead of all this talk about guns, vets and magic bullets why don't they just do whatever they did after the bumper incident?
I have been asking this for days and in particular how long before it was finally captured and what was this mad rampant killer beast doing in the meantime Instead of all this talk about guns, vets and magic bullets why don't they just do whatever they did after the bumper incident?
I wonder if it's because it was hit that it was captured?
All hail the Bobby for putting his phaser to stun mode
Nibbles_bits said:
dickymint said:
Cold said:
How did they eventually catch this calf? It wasn't caught by hitting it with a 4x4, but by another method. Possibly a bloke with a wide hat and a lasso?
Instead of all this talk about guns, vets and magic bullets why don't they just do whatever they did after the bumper incident?
I have been asking this for days and in particular how long before it was finally captured and what was this mad rampant killer beast doing in the meantime Instead of all this talk about guns, vets and magic bullets why don't they just do whatever they did after the bumper incident?
I wonder if it's because it was hit that it was captured?
DonkeyApple said:
Ah, you were on the balcony. Got it. 
As one of the nations leading assassins you will obviously be aware that there is such a concept as humane killing for animals. We aren't going to just have people firing at cows and hoping to hit something. Let's engage brain just for a moment, or you ask the village to borrow it for this, you do actually need to know where to hit the poor thing to get that humane kill and I doubt we waste that much tax payer money training specialist police to handle the worrying cow invasion that some speak of.
Wow. Honestly, it's quite impressive that you assume everyone is as thick as you are.As one of the nations leading assassins you will obviously be aware that there is such a concept as humane killing for animals. We aren't going to just have people firing at cows and hoping to hit something. Let's engage brain just for a moment, or you ask the village to borrow it for this, you do actually need to know where to hit the poor thing to get that humane kill and I doubt we waste that much tax payer money training specialist police to handle the worrying cow invasion that some speak of.
DonkeyApple said:
Ah, you were on the balcony. Got it.
As one of the nations leading assassins you will obviously be aware that there is such a concept as humane killing for animals. We aren't going to just have people firing at cows and hoping to hit something. Let's engage brain just for a moment, or you ask the village to borrow it for this, you do actually need to know where to hit the poor thing to get that humane kill and I doubt we waste that much tax payer money training specialist police to handle the worrying cow invasion that some speak of.
Agreed.As one of the nations leading assassins you will obviously be aware that there is such a concept as humane killing for animals. We aren't going to just have people firing at cows and hoping to hit something. Let's engage brain just for a moment, or you ask the village to borrow it for this, you do actually need to know where to hit the poor thing to get that humane kill and I doubt we waste that much tax payer money training specialist police to handle the worrying cow invasion that some speak of.
Imagine the headline 'Bovine Blood Bath In Street - Armed cops blast little baby cow 6 times before it dies'
Lots of folk (I almost typed woke!) on here who know nothing about killing cattle, nothing about deploying armed police, nothing about what armed police can and can't do, and nothing about the rules of police discharging firearms in the street. Yet when little 'Marvin the moo cow' gets hit by a car they are suddenly experts in the above. I love it
Edited by The Gauge on Friday 21st June 07:30
The Gauge said:
DonkeyApple said:
Ah, you were on the balcony. Got it.
As one of the nations leading assassins you will obviously be aware that there is such a concept as humane killing for animals. We aren't going to just have people firing at cows and hoping to hit something. Let's engage brain just for a moment, or you ask the village to borrow it for this, you do actually need to know where to hit the poor thing to get that humane kill and I doubt we waste that much tax payer money training specialist police to handle the worrying cow invasion that some speak of.
Agreed.As one of the nations leading assassins you will obviously be aware that there is such a concept as humane killing for animals. We aren't going to just have people firing at cows and hoping to hit something. Let's engage brain just for a moment, or you ask the village to borrow it for this, you do actually need to know where to hit the poor thing to get that humane kill and I doubt we waste that much tax payer money training specialist police to handle the worrying cow invasion that some speak of.
Imagine the headline 'Bovine Blood Bath In Street - Armed cops blast little baby cow 6 times before it dies'
Lots of folk (I almost typed woke!) on here who know nothing about killing cattle, nothing about deploying armed police, nothing about what armed police can and can't do, and nothing about the rules of police discharging firearms in the street. Yet when little 'Marvin the moo cow' gets hit by a car they are suddenly experts in the above. I love it
Edited by The Gauge on Friday 21st June 07:30
Flumpo said:
Nibbles_bits said:
dickymint said:
Cold said:
How did they eventually catch this calf? It wasn't caught by hitting it with a 4x4, but by another method. Possibly a bloke with a wide hat and a lasso?
Instead of all this talk about guns, vets and magic bullets why don't they just do whatever they did after the bumper incident?
I have been asking this for days and in particular how long before it was finally captured and what was this mad rampant killer beast doing in the meantime Instead of all this talk about guns, vets and magic bullets why don't they just do whatever they did after the bumper incident?
I wonder if it's because it was hit that it was captured?
Yep still in use...................
https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/livestock-and-anima...
Bigends said:
Interesting, reading a UK farmers forum, posters are all of the view that this wouldnt have happened if the stray animal had been a horse. Cattle are seen as more disposable with less emotional attachment to the public.
Exactly and God forbid if it was a rampant Panda or Polar Bear 
Interesting factoid: 5.56 can be used to dispatch calf-sized animals perfectly cleanly and effectively. I have a relative in Zimbabwe who uses an AR-15 chambered in 5.56, originally purchased for self-defence during the civil war, to cull impala on his farm. It looks a bit peculiar with a telescopic sight mounted above the carrying handle.
dickymint said:
Bigends said:
Interesting, reading a UK farmers forum, posters are all of the view that this wouldnt have happened if the stray animal had been a horse. Cattle are seen as more disposable with less emotional attachment to the public.
Exactly and God forbid if it was a rampant Panda or Polar Bear 
Bigends said:
Interesting, reading a UK farmers forum, posters are all of the view that this wouldnt have happened if the stray animal had been a horse. Cattle are seen as more disposable with less emotional attachment to the public.
"Generally" we don't eat horses in the UK they are kind of pets or recreational animals.There is a trade for export though for slaughter to Belgium and France. Often with falsified passports declaring they haven't had certain drugs in their lifetime that would exclude them from the food chain
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