Utah man caught butchering cow in driveway; neighbors reporting hearing moo sounds, gunshot-like pop

[Liberal_in_LA]

Utah man caught butchering cow in driveway; neighbors reporting hearing moo sounds, gunshot-like pop

A Utah man was caught butchering a cow in his driveway - and may have even shot the animal on site, police said.

A bewildered local in Ogden called police at around 1:44 p.m. on Sunday to report spotting one of his neighbors bringing a live cow to his home on a trailer.

The caller reported hearing mooing sounds, followed by a gunshot-like popping sound, the Ogden Standard-Examiner reported.

The mooing stopped after the pop, the caller said.

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Burnett said police and city prosecutors were investigating the incident, and the man could face charges of firing a weapon in city limits, disorderly conduct, as well as health code violations.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/09/07/2011-09-07_utah_man_caught_butchering_cow_in_driveway_neighbors_reporting_hearing_moo_sound.html#ixzz1Xg0IrYR5

[rug]

1. Here come the takeout bashers.

[alittlelark]

3. Bad, bad, bad....

:evilgrin:

[tblue]

2. POOR COW!!!

How can you shoot a cow????!


You mess with cows, you mess with me!

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. that's a sweet faced cow.

[RZM]

7. Reminds me of Borden's Elsie n/t

[ashling]

9. What?! That cow is the face of a soulless corporation?

SHOOT IT!!!!!
:sarcasm:






:rofl:

[RZM]

10. LOL. But those lashes . . . ;) n/t

[in_cog_ni_to]

5. Awww! What a cute face! I feel the same way about deer.

How could you look at those animals and kill them?

[Nye Bevan]

11. I would agree with you. Except that venison is so delicious (nt)

[WinkyDink]

13. That's what sharks and crocs and tigers and gators think of us!

[AngryAmish]

28. What a cute, delicious face.

Calf cheeks are so, so tender. Real beefy flavor. Very intense.

[Liberal_in_LA]

36. lol n/t

[izquierdista]

6. City slicker

Driveway?! :wtf: Everybody living in the country knows that's what trees in the back yard are for -- dressing carcasses.

[Xithras]

12. My dad's neighbor butchers his buffalo in his driveway.

Hanging the carcass from a tree may work with deer and elk, but when you're butchering larger animals like buffalo and cattle, a level driveway and an engine hoist are often a better option.

My dad doesn't butcher his own cattle at all (he usually has three of them wandering around his few acres of land). He calls a mobile butcher who comes out, puts it down, and cleans the entire thing in a big mobile butcher shop in a trailer. It doesn't cost my dad a thing...they split the beef 50/50 (he could pay the guy if he wanted to keep it all, but it's just my dad and stepmom at this point, and they don't really need all that much meat).

[Liberal_in_LA]

15. I'd consider the cows to be pets. n/t

[Rincewind]

18. I consider cows

to be dinner.

[Xithras]

26. So does he. He even names them.

The current three are named T-Bone, Chuck, and Flank. Flank is the baby of the bunch, and they just picked him up a few months ago to replenish the ranks...they butchered Shank last fall. Seriously :)

My dad loves his animals, but he's pretty unsentimental about it when butchering time comes around. He raises his cattle for food, and they live a much better life than those on factory farms. Instead of living in a mud pit, constantly injected with antibiotics and force fed gassy grains until they're slaughtered in a dirty factory at 18 months, his three cattle get to live about 3 years on average, wandering around a fairly idyllic grass covered hillside along the Oregon coast. It's 100% organic, hand raised beef.

[Liberal_in_LA]

35. then he eats them. :-(

:-(

[Xithras]

38. That's what you do with food animals.

Unless you're a vegan (which isn't happening with my dad), cows are food, and food gets eaten. Thanks to their deep freezer, one half cow lasts them nearly a year.

If you're going to support meat eating, his example is about as high a bar as you can set. Family raised, by owners that care about the health and safety of their animals, in a 100% natural and organic setting. Whenever any of his animals are put down for food (he has goats and chickens too), they are dispatched in the fastest and most humane manner possible (with is not only the right thing to do, but which also ensures higher quality meat).

[xchrom]

8. Wow. Idiot. Nt

[kestrel91316]

14. WHile some find the idea of this icky, one customarily DOES kill a cow

before butchering it, and butchers it before eating it.

Perhaps this was in bad taste given how Americans don't understand where our food comes from anymore, but he shouldn't be prosecuted for it.

[alphafemale]

19. idiot on line to 911. "A vicious fiend just killed a cow!

911 can you hold a sec? Steaks on the grill are burning.

[Marrah_G]

24. People just are not used to seeing their meat in living form

I don't think he should be prosecuted for anything unless he was selling the meat to others.

[Modern_Matthew]

16. Hope it makes some decent burgers and steaks.

:woohoo:

[XemaSab]

17. Somehow I don't see the problem

:shrug:

You think this is worse than at a slaughterhouse? Think again. Probably the cow never even saw it coming.

Of course, I live in a 'hood where people butcher deer in their driveways. I don't have a problem with that either. :shrug:

[Frank Cannon]

21. I don't get it, either.

Particularly in a backwards jerkwater state like Utah, which is pretty much the Afghanistan of the United States.*
















*No offense to any DUers who find themselves trapped there.

[Are_grits_groceries]

20. Where do people think beef, pork and

other meat comes from ? While it probably is a bit unsettling to have someone butchering a cow next door, the meat couldn't be worse than what comes from slaughterhouses.

As for 'cute and sweet' cows, don't let them fool you. They can be meaner than hell and dangerous. You haven't lived until you have been chased by a cow through a pasture and then vaulted a fence in an olympic move.

I won't go into details about slaughtering and preparing pigs during the fall. It was a ritual enacted every year so that enough food could be smoked, salted, and frozen for the rest of the year. As far as shooting them, think 'blunt force trauma' to the head. Gak all you want.

It could be worse. Jeffrey Dahmer could have been their neighbor.

[eShirl]

33. You ran from a cow?

:rofl:

Worst my grandpa's cows ever did to me is get me with muzzle mucus while snuffling at the back of my hand. They were so skittish, my cousin and I had to move in super slow motion like the Six Million Dollar Man in order to get anywhere near them.

The bull was a different story... he was kept in a separate field most of the time, and we weren't supposed to get anywhere near him. :scared:

[Odin2005]

22. LOL, where I come from we butcher game in trees.

[Marrah_G]

23. Not quite sure what the issue is.........

[BoWanZi]

25. What exactly is the problem here?

Okay, granted, discharge of a weapon on city grounds might be technically illegal, but it really doesn't sound like an issue.

When I lived near a farm about 15 years ago, the neighbor would raise a cow and then he would shoot it in the head and then butcher it for meat. Didn't strike me as odd since that is what he bought the cow for.

I mean you don't buy a cow for a pet, you buy them for milk and/or food.

unrec for sensationalized article.

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. you want your kids to see a cow get butchered. What's next, seeing folks wring the necks of chicken

s?

[NickB79]

31. That would be great, actually

Then children would understand where their food comes from instead of never understanding what they're really eating.

Millions of farm children have seen and assisted with livestock butchering for generations, with no detrimental effects. Some would argue that it had many beneficial effects.

[yawnmaster]

39. I would have no problem with my kids seeing it. Nor would I have any problem with them killing a...

chicken under the right circumstances.

[Bigmack]

27. I used to name my cattle.. and hogs..

after school administrators I had encountered in my career.

It made putting them down for butchering a lot easier.

My animals lived like pampered royalty, and only had one bad moment in their entire lives.

I used to label the freezer packages with the name of the individual animal.

I don't think that's weird or cruel... I think it's staying in touch with where we get our food.

[Ezlivin]

29. Man claims animal was in a gang and wearing leather...

He had no choice but to defend himself.

[NickB79]

32. Only on DU

Can we have simultaneous threads going in which one thread says "It's bad to butcher your own food", and another that says "Eat less factory-farmed meat, McDonald's crap and GM crops".

I guess the only option left is going vegan :shrug:

[hamsterjill]

34. If this was within a subdivision, I'd have a problem

With the use of the gun. We have some dipstick in our area who routinely shoots at raccoons. Our houses are probably ten feet from each other, with a backyard of about 50 feet in length backing up to another neighbor's back yard.

Guns should not be used in situations like this. But you get some dipstick member of the NRA who doesn't believe he can miss if he aims for the raccoon. Never mind that someone might actually be standing outside in their own backyard; he just wants to kill the raccoon.

[Generic Other]

37. The Hunting Song by Tom Lehrer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iATzgXyhYRs