Last night, a 750-pound cow escaped from a Paterson, NJ slaughterhouse, leading police and animal control officers on a wild run. According to the Bergen Record, the cow was "was tranquilized after being pursued through the city." There were no injuries (except to a police car) and the cow will go to a farm!
Apparently the cow left the slaughterhouse unnoticed and got to know the neighborhood: It "ran up and down Presidential Boulevard, spent some time at a basketball court, then continued on River Street, crossing the Arch Street Bridge and wading into the Passaic River." Paterson chief animal control John De Cando said, "It was like Dodge City,. You had five police cars on one side of the street, five on the other and the 750-pound cow looking both ways. When the opportunity came, it booked between the police cars."
The cow was eventually tranquilized and fell asleep between a truck and a fire hydrant. De Cando was assured the cow would be taken to a farm. Last year, a bull escaped from a Queens slaughterhouse. And when a baby lamb escaped a truck headed to a Bronx slaughterhouse, the lamb was taken to Farm Sanctuary upstate. Keep in mind, science insists that red meat will kill ya!
