Cowdini!

Massachusetts police had a run in with the Great Cowdini, bovine escape artist extraordinare, in the middle of the night. After freeing herself from barbed wire fencing, the escapee led the police on a low speed chase (the cow is a bit overweight, apparently). Then the animal refused to be stopped by a lasso and escaped that, too.

"I gave them the call as reported — a large animal walking down the middle of Route 140 that had large horns," Upton Police Department Dispatcher Debbie LaRose said. "I was going to give Dan one of those red things to see if the cow would follow him back chasing that," said Paula Tripp, who helped chase the cow.

The cow's owners call her "Moo-Cow." During her middle-of-the-night jaunt, she wasn't taking any bull.

The hairy situation started when the Scottish highlander busted a barbed wire fence at her Grafton farm at about 1 a.m. She crossed the line into Upton, where two officers started the chase.

"Although, they did take it seriously. They didn't want someone to run into the bull and get injured. It did make the night go by fast," Upton Police Department Chief Tom Stockwell said.

"Oh yeah, she was mad," Tripp said.

Tripp, a neighbor of the owners who's watching their animals while they travel, joined in on the chase with several friends and a vet.

"We were chasing it up 140, down the side streets, back down to 140," she said.

The cow puffed for four to five miles over four hours before deciding she had had enough of the hot pursuit. After the animal rammed the cruiser, Tripp's friend tripped up the cow with a rodeo-worthy lasso.

Now this indicates a real problem. The Animal Uprising™ has already developed Taser-proof animals. Now they have ones that can't be caught by conventional ropes.