To think you don't deal with an escaped cow by running it over!

[Dobbyafreeelf]

Last night Thames Valley Police deliberately hit and killed an escaped cow in a residential area. They claim it was out of control. Had they backed off and moved people away it would have likely calmed down enough to be contained. Chasing it caused it to injure a member of the public and police officer. It was not killed outright by being run over!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-57112449

AIBU to think that this is not a humane way of dispatching an animal? If it was that out of control surely firearms should have been used to dispatch it!

Ramming it with a farmer/vet ready to shoot it by captive bolt would have been pretty quick. That or potentially missing with a rifle and shooting a bystander, I know which I'd choose.

@rwalker

"Can't stop laughing a reply where poster said "why didn't they get the farmer to talk to it to calm it down "

please tell me there taking the piss.

Yes they were having a subtle joke.

There is a lot more of it here these days an MN needs it. There are some too serious batshit folk on here these days it needs lightening up a bit.

@OrangeRug

It's a terrible way to die. As is being strung upside down and having your throat slit, which is how she would have died otherwise. If people didn't fund animal abuse by buying meat then the poor creature wouldn't have been in the situation in the first place.

No, she would have have likely been shit with a captive bolt gun. Don’t perpetuate false ‘horrors’.

In the video she's just trotting along at the side of a main road and it's dark. No child on a bike in sight.

It was clearly an inhumane method of killing and didn't prevent suffering to the cow at all. She very much did suffer as she didn't die outright. I'm with OP, they are trying to pass this off as something it wasn't.

I think you have missed about 99% of what actually happened!!

Burgers for tea lads

@OrangeRug

It's a terrible way to die. As is being strung upside down and having your throat slit, which is how she would have died otherwise. If people didn't fund animal abuse by buying meat then the poor creature wouldn't have been in the situation in the first place.

Are you really that ignorant that you think that they string up a live 600kg cow and slit its throat? Have you seen the size of a cow?

And if it encountered a member of the public, or road traffic before it ran out or calmed down?

Shut in a front garden! It's a cow not a rabbit!
The farmer who owned the animal was there and evidently didn't feel it was safe to let it run out.
Let's hope none of your friend's cattle escape at any point.