Cow rammed by police

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I am absolutely gobsmacked by this - Surrey Police ramming an escaped cow to the ground and then trapping it under their car - what in the name of actual fuck were they thinking? It looks to be a young cow too. Just horrifying. (The video is distressing so watch with caution)

https://x.com/ub1ub2/status/1801939257054859521?s=46&t=Pfjp_stFUzJzWEsZJQFxng

apparently they tried for a long time to restrain it
a cow on the loose is a danger to itself and to the public, could easily cause a serious accident
have you ever tried to catch an escaped cow OP?
and btw do you eat beef and drink milk?

What the actual - are you for real? It's a calf!

It’s awful. I’ve not read in the news reports that the police enlisted any expert help. I appreciate the cow on the loose is damgerous but I would hope doing that would be the very last resort.

I am astonished by this too

I’m open to hearing explanations. Everything I’ve heard so far suggests this was a mad decision. I note the Surrey police statement says “a decision was made”. Honestly before that, I wondered if it was a rogue officer.

we had this problem a few times near my London school. I have certainly never known of this being a way it got handled.

they also said it was a problem for a number of hours - so how did they end up doing that?!

I cant watch the video, but heard about it on the news..
I cant understand why the didnt enlist a local experienced farmer? (i,e the owner)
you cant go ramming animals deliberately with cars fgs! disgusting behaviour!
and what message does that send to the little shits who do things like shoot cats with air rifles?
The police are supposed to lead by example..

Some rural police officers are commenting that they deal with this sort of thing without having to resort to ramming the animal with their car.

I honestly wonder how anyone with any empathy could actually deliberately ram an animal like that,

and btw do you eat beef and drink milk?

What does this even mean?

It's disgusting.

I take it the poor animal died?
(I can't watch the video)

It would have been better to have just shot it

They want to know if your vegan apparently only vegans can care about animals

The fucking idiots

That is horrible. Poor thing.

I'm a meat eater, but that is brutal and an unnecessary way of resolving the problem.

I hadn’t heard about this but watched the video. That poor animal, it must have been terrified and in such pain.
What the fuck were they thinking!

You can't tell me there wasn't a better way of dealing with this situation? Or has this literally never happened in that area before? (There is a first time for everything after all)

It is still alive but has a cut leg, apparently.

https://x.com/SurreyPolice/status/1801984470158880856

No it’s being treated for a large cut to it’s leg according to the BBC report I read.

thanks @Listress that's good to hear

The trouble is our police patrols are mostly car based. They don't have any training with animals and most of them are townies who are scared of anything bigger than a poodle. 😁

On the way to work recently, there were two ponies loose on the road. I stopped, caught them, couldn't see where they had come from so rang the police and asked them to come and take over.

I had to ring them three times. An hour later they finally admitted they didn't know much about horses and couldn't I just find a field to stick them in !!! 🙄

I cant understand why the didnt enlist a local experienced farmer? (i,e the owner)

I wondered that too

Don't be a complete arse. There's no correlation in behaviour. FFS 🙄

I am sickened by this

I can't imagine being a person who could deliberately ram an animal with a car because it had escaped and then do it again when you didn't kill it the first time.

It wasn't a herd of rampaging lions it was one bloody calf.

Surely get someone in who could help-this was appalling decision making, poor judgement and I think the person doing this should face severe punishment.
Maybe by a herd of cows

Oh my god. I cannot comprehend this. Why couldn't they use their vehicles to trap the calf in a corral while they waited for a vet or animal handler?

Vile. Humans never cease to amaze me. Can’t watch the video.

Would be better to shoot it than that, christ those police men should be fired.