Carnivorous Cow Chomps Chicken
If you're like us here at Blue Crab Boulevard, you lay awake at night thinking about the dreaded Animal Uprising™ and trying to figure out what they will strike with next. Atomic ants? Nuclear newts? Taser-proof pigs? Oh wait, they already did that one. But never, not even a little, tiny bit, did we see this one coming.
But Ajit Ghosh, the owner of the missing chickens, eventually solved the puzzle when he caught his cow — a sacred animal for the Hindu family — gobbling up several of them at night.
"We were shocked to see our calf eating chickens alive," Ghosh told Reuters by phone from Chandpur village, about 240 km (150 miles) northwest of capital Kolkata.
The family decided to stand guard at night on Monday at the cow shed which also served as a hen coop, after 48 chickens went missing in a month.
"Instead of the dogs, we watched in horror as the calf, whom we had fondly named Lal, sneak to the coop and grab the little ones with the precision of a jungle cat," Gour Ghosh, his brother, said.
Consider the fact that the cow is currently enjoying poultry. But what comes next? It's only a matter of time until children start going missing. Then full grown humans. Be afraid. Your steak is about to turn on you.
By Uncle Pinky, Wednesday, 7 March , 2007 @ 5:00 pm
I suppose you are familiar with Ben Edlund’s satirical comic “The Tick” in which Man-Eating Cow is a force for good. This would appear to be the dark, dark side.