Article

2007-11-23 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Angique Gonque2974 2007-11-23 02:39|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Maybe she meant physical therapy.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2007-11-23 08:03|| 2007-11-23 08:03|| Front Page Top

#2 I've been convinced for a long time that the world has turned into one or more Tom Lehrer songs.

Two game wardens,
Seven hunters,
And a pure-bred Guernsey cow!

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-11-23 08:13|| 2007-11-23 08:13|| Front Page Top

#3 i wouldn't have thought a coyote weighed 45 lbs. around here they are the size of a medium sized dog

Posted by sinse 2007-11-23 08:57|| 2007-11-23 08:57|| Front Page Top

#4 I thought coyotes could weight, oh, I don't know, easily 180 lbs and more. I mean, mexicans are not so poor as they used to be, I'm sure they can eat well, and human traffiking is such a money-making business, they've got plenty to spend on food and other stuffs.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-23 09:12|| 2007-11-23 09:12|| Front Page Top

#5 Btw, to get back on topic, with what was he shooting? I thought coyotes, groundhogs and other smallish critters were shot with rifles like .222, .223,... I doubt you can kill a cow with anything less than a full-sized rifle round, especially if you shoot far enough to make such a mistake. wouldn't the weapon used be indicative of his intent? Anyway, he needs to pay, for the cow and the calf... idiot, or criminal, you decide.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-23 09:15|| 2007-11-23 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 The full-grown coyotes around here are about the size of a German Shepherd.

Posted by Deacon Blues">Deacon Blues 2007-11-23 09:40|| 2007-11-23 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 the man then tried to drag the cow home.

Cattle rustling used to carry a pretty hefty penalty in the West, and still does in some states. But this is Michigan so I'm guessing he gets off lightly.

OTOH, the herd should sue him for emotional distress, loss of income (the projected milk production of the cow & the calf, assuming it was a dairy herd), loss of fertilization of the pasture .....

Posted by lotp 2007-11-23 09:57|| 2007-11-23 09:57|| Front Page Top

#8 Where I grew up in Nebraska - this was a typical way for good old boys to get brisket material for their 20Keg parties...
Only, I don't recall any coyote claim... bad vision dear hunters were a more common claim that was only used if the cops were not interested in a few T-Bones...

Posted by 3dc 2007-11-23 10:22|| 2007-11-23 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 deer dear - oops

Posted by 3dc 2007-11-23 10:23|| 2007-11-23 10:23|| Front Page Top

#10 It gets better: Family Howls for Justice over Cow's Death
The suspect "authorities said, shot the cow but didn't kill it with the initial shot. He allegedly shot it twice more and chained the bovine to his vehicle.

"I don't know how he hit a several-thousand-pound cow mistaking it for a coyote," said Rory Heckman, Benzie County's undersheriff. "It's hard for him to explain away shooting it two more times and trying to drag it away with his vehicle."
The owner's father said,"I believe if [the suspect] got it to his garage it would have been the last time I seen the cow."

"She was the only cow we had " said the owner.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-11-23 11:40|| 2007-11-23 11:40|| Front Page Top

#11 That's sad, cows are nice animals (I live near them), and this guy should be sued off his pants, there's no chance he didn't did it on purpose, and he couldn't even kill her painlessly. So, he's a thief, and an incomptent one too.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-23 12:42|| 2007-11-23 12:42|| Front Page Top

#12 Definitely a green horn cattle rustler. I doubt Hannah was coyote ugly. He needs to buy the neighbor another pregnant cow and then pay a fine at the Justice of the Peace Office. This will be a great learning experience for this wanna-be "buffalo hunter".

Posted by Pecos Bill 2007-11-23 13:58|| 2007-11-23 13:58|| Front Page Top

#13 Shooter Says He Mistook Cow for Coyote

Cows Tales Must Be Shaggy This Year In Benzie County...

Posted by Red Dawg">Red Dawg 2007-11-23 15:07|| 2007-11-23 15:07|| Front Page Top

#14 I couldn't help but think of Wile E. Coyote dressed up like a cow or something.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-11-23 15:11|| 2007-11-23 15:11|| Front Page Top

#15 He often disguised as a sheep, when trying to outsmart that shepherd dog, but, as a cow, I dunno.

Posted by anonymous5089 2007-11-23 15:16|| 2007-11-23 15:16|| Front Page Top

#16 This bit of foolishness happened next county over from here. Everyone is pretty appalled by the crime, more so by the lameness of the excuse, figuring that even a drunken hunter can tell a small dog sized critter from a cow.

The mook in question is being charged with about five counts
- attempting to take a game animal (coyote) out of season
- no small game license (say, how's that coyote excuse working out for ya?)
- the actual cow murder
- discharge of firearm too near a residence
- some misc. obstruction for lying and trying to hide the crime.

Posted by SteveS 2007-11-23 17:18|| 2007-11-23 17:18|| Front Page Top

#17 Thanks #10. I had visions of this bozo trying to drag a 2,000 pound cow away from the scene of the crime by hand. I thought, no wonder he got caught.

Posted by phil_b 2007-11-23 21:02|| 2007-11-23 21:02|| Front Page Top

#18 Close, A5089. The Sham Sheepdog and Ralph Wolf cartoons were knockoffs of the Roadrunner cartoons.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2007-11-23 23:24|| 2007-11-23 23:24|| Front Page Top

#19 Maybe she meant physical therapy.

I recommend extensive parking lot therapy.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-23 23:39|| 2007-11-23 23:39|| Front Page Top

23:43 Zenster
23:39 Zenster
23:32 Zenster
23:30 Red Dawg
23:26 Woozle Grereck5422
23:26 Unique Hitler7097
23:25 Woozle Grereck5422
23:24 Eric Jablow
23:16 Woozle Grereck5422
23:07 KBK
23:00 Ulomoque Protector of the Hatfields2940
22:51 Mike N.
22:51 Ulomoque Protector of the Hatfields2940
22:50 M. Murcek
22:48 Old Patriot
22:39 Mike N.
22:39 Zenster
22:38 Classical_Liberal
22:32 Ulomoque Protector of the Hatfields2940
22:31 Old Patriot
22:22 Zenster
22:13 3dc
22:05 3dc
22:00 Old Patriot