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

I think they dealt with it terribly. Bastards.

I've dealt with cattle for many years.
That older calf presented no danger.
It would have been very easy to handle the situation differently, and not physically harm the poor thing.
Awful.

If they were called out to deal with this they should have sent a animal welfare officer, vet or farmer not just ram it, disgusting behaviour. I hope they and the call handler are called to account. Poor animal, I hope it makes a full recovery and a loving owner.

I’m not going to watch. We have loose sheep around here all the time and the occasional cow and horse. The idea that someone, a police officer with the ability to call in resources no less, would ram an animal with a car rather than seeking proper help is awful. At the very least they could have cleanly shot it if it was genuinely causing a danger.

It's an animal equivalent of the poor elderly man with dementia who was tasered and handcuffed for having a butter knife he wouldn't give back. Heavy handed, panicky officers without appropriate training who, instead of calling for assistance (local farmer/vet/older adult mental health team) just take an extreme and violent course of action.

Heavy handed, panicky officers without appropriate training who, instead of calling for assistance (local farmer/vet/older adult mental health team) just take an extreme and violent course of action.

Exactly this - it always just seems it's sledgehammers for nuts for the police. Dimwitted behaviour from people with too much of a taste for power, and no ability to think laterally.

They claim it took several hours so plenty of time to call the vet or farmer, maybe the poor thing could have been tranquilliser, the roads closed, be interesting to hear what help these thugs sought.

The video just came up on twitter.

It wasn't out of control or attempting to harm anyone, just trotting down the middle of a road.

Absolutely no need for that, ramming into the cow hard enough to throw it through the air and then park over it whilst it's still lying on the ground.

The members of public at the scene looked pretty angry at the police

Absolute bastards.

When our police force is full of wife beating thugs and animal abusers is it any surprise?
Fuckers 🤬🤬🤬

Fuck me. Ramming it at what looked like quite a speed. Then seeming to park almost on the poor bloody animal. All whilst it was posing no threat to anyone at all.

It’s just too horrible for words. For what it’s worth, they are getting absolutely savaged on their local beat FB page and they deserve every single bit of it. I have made an official complaint via the force website and would encourage others to do the same.

What the hell has whether anyone eats beef or milk got to do with the police ramming a cow?? Do you think that's how they slaughter them then...

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?
Honestly the stupidest thing I have ever read on MN.
It was a calf, not a rampaging tiger. Had they bothered to request help from someone with half a clue what they were doing, this could have been resolved very simply.
Yet another example of police idiocy/inhumanity that leaves me what kind of brainless fuck wits we have apparantly protecting us.

You really don’t get this, do you?

We went to a country pub for Sunday lunch once. Down the road from the pub were lots of police cars so we asked the landlord what was going on he. At first he said “armed siege” but when we looked shocked he just laughed and said it was an escaped bull. They rounded him up somehow and got him home. Nobody got rammed! It’s not that rare for police to have to deal with escaped livestock so you’d think someone on the force would have had a clue.

I've just watched the video, that's absolutely disgusting, it's a calf ffs!!

I think she can spot obvious double standards when it comes to how people regard animals quite well.

Really? This isn’t even remotely comparable.

Presumably they have training/experience in this sort of thing. Perhaps they could do some sort of exchange programme?

It's absolutely appalling. I hope the driver is sacked and prosecuted. I really do. It's a really upsetting video and there was simply no need for it.

The beef I eat usually hasn't been killed by being rammed by a police car.

I can't believe they couldn't find someone to shoot the cow.

I can’t quite compartmentalise stuff as well as some people I suppose

I was never particularly a fan of the police, now I genuinely hate them. I'm sorry if there are any serving police officers on here, but this is the last straw for me, and you're not going to win back my respect and trust at all easily.

The animal was frightened and confused, and the police decided in their desperation infinite wisdom to ram it and pin it under their car?! Sorry, no. Just no. It's a waste of taxpayer money to even run this through the IOPC, just sack them and bar them from reapplying.

Then the cow would be dead, rather than being treated for a cut on its leg by a vet (according to the BBC). I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest the cow probably preferred this outcome?

I’m going out on a limb to say they’re probably lying about the poor thing just having a cut on its leg.