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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 06:56 PM
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A German celebrity: cow defeats heat-seeking camera, George Clooney of bulls
A German celebrity: cow defeats heat-seeking camera, George Clooney of bulls

BERLIN // A cow called Yvonne has gained international fame and won thousands of Facebook friends by escaping slaughter and trotting off into a Bavarian forest where she has been eluding her pursuers for almost three months.

Her resourcefulness and cunning has astounded the police, hunters and animal-rights activists since the six-year-old brown and white cow smashed her way through an 8,000 volt electric fence at a farm near the Alpine village of Aschau and went wandering.

Even the most sophisticated attempts to track her have failed. Last week a helicopter equipped with a heat-seeking camera went on several sorties to comb the forest near the village of Zangberg, 16 kilometres from Aschau, where she is thought to be hiding.

Then activists resorted to a love trap. A towering black ox called Ernst, so good-looking that he was dubbed "the George Clooney among cattle", was brought to the edge of the woods to lure her out.

http://www.thenational.ae/news/worldwide/a-german-celebrity-cow-defeats-heat-seeking-camera-george-clooney-of-bulls
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ClarkUSA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 07:11 PM
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1. Ernst was gelded, so that may have something to do with it. Yvonne ain't stupid.
:D
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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 08:04 PM
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2. I have this picture in my head
of a cow in bib overalls with George Clooneys head.
Very disturbing.
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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 08:07 PM
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3. was gonna make a jooke about tube steak
but decided not to :hide:
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amerikat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 08:24 PM
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4. good decision. Might have been
taken as a bovine sex thread.

The mods might have tanned your hide.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 08:49 PM
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5. Tom Clancy's already bought the book rights to this story.
He can't decide on a title yet. It's between,

"Ruminant Games"

"The Sum of all Steers"

or "The Hunt for Red Angus".


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