4/25/2005: Cow on roof as art

Undertoad · 04-25-2005, 12:38 PM

Santiago Chile: This cow has been placed there specifically by a 10-story crane. The animal is on top of the roof of the building.

According to the full story, the cow was kidnapped on the way to the slaughterhouse, and is being well cared-for until it will be released into a nature preserve.

I doubt it was actually kidnapped; it would be just as easy to pay someone for their end-of-the-road milk cow and just say it was kidnapped. It's just not a good idea to commit a crime and then announce it from the tops of buildings. Even on the way to its death, it still has some value.

The mark of that value has been put into the modern vernacular: the "brand". I should think that a modern US milk cow would not have branding, but ear tags, and tattoos, and now probably even RFID tags embedded in the skin somewhere.

04-25-2005, 12:38 PM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	4/25/2005: Cow on roof as art Santiago Chile: This cow has been placed there specifically by a 10-story crane. The animal is on top of the roof of the building. According to the full story, the cow was kidnapped on the way to the slaughterhouse, and is being well cared-for until it will be released into a nature preserve. I doubt it was actually kidnapped; it would be just as easy to pay someone for their end-of-the-road milk cow and just say it was kidnapped. It's just not a good idea to commit a crime and then announce it from the tops of buildings. Even on the way to its death, it still has some value. The mark of that value has been put into the modern vernacular: the "brand". I should think that a modern US milk cow would not have branding, but ear tags, and tattoos, and now probably even RFID tags embedded in the skin somewhere.

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