A seaborne assault on the North Sea coast of England has begun and authorities are unable to to stop it. After hours of battling rough weather searching for the invaders, the coast guard had to send a second boat out to rescue the first one. Neither one located the invasion fleet.
A wayward cow's dip in the North Sea ended up launching a full-scale search and rescue operation.
Lifeboat crews from Amble, Northumberland, set sail in three metre swells and near gale-force conditions after the animal was seen battling waves further up the coast, north of Boulmer, late on Thursday afternoon.
It was spotted by a member of the public, who alerted Humber Coastguard at around 5.20pm. The rigid inflatable inshore lifeboat Rosemary Palmer was first sent to try to locate the seaborne bovine and attempt to herd it back towards the beach.
But with darkness coming down and conditions rapidly worsening, it was decided that the all-weather lifeboat The Four Boys should also be sent out to escort the smaller rescue vessel.
Under directions from local Coastguard teams, both boats searched the area in breaking seas for over an hour with no success until they were stood down by controllers on Humberside.
The terrifying amphibious cows of the Animal Uprising™ strike.
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On a more serious note: Hey, rescue folks, it’s a COW! Three metre swells and high winds and you’re risking your butts for a COW! Could we think about this for a minute. I can see if it were the hundreds stranded by the western storms in the US, but there it was dropping feed to them, not picking them up and putting them to pasture somewhere else.
Tomorrow it’s the Daytona 500 and steaks on the grill. [As he wanders off, mumbling...]