2/6/2004: Cow unexpectedly walks through bank

Undertoad • Feb 6, 2004 11:42 am
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Oh sure, in India this might not be unusual, but this one happened in Germany. According to this Ananova story, the cow escaped from a nearby wedding, where the groom had employed it as a joke to provide guests with fresh milk in place of champagne. And then it walked into a bank.

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"The animal was a nice customer," a bank spokeswoman told Bild newspaper. "It behaved, was friendly and didn't even knock anything over."
SteveDallas • Feb 6, 2004 11:44 am
That would be as opposed to a cow EXPECTEDLY walking through a bank.

Wonder if it made any deposits while it was there??
Michael Roth • Feb 6, 2004 11:52 am
I love the quote from the spokesman, that is fantastic.
FileNotFound • Feb 6, 2004 12:52 pm
It wanted to see if they were using Gateways
jinx • Feb 6, 2004 1:12 pm
I bet it was looking for the china shop.
Happy Monkey • Feb 6, 2004 4:17 pm
So it could get funky with the bull?
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 6, 2004 6:59 pm
Looking for a bull market?;)
SteveDallas • Feb 6, 2004 8:39 pm
HEY! Who opened the Schlitz Malt Liquor[size=1](tm)[/size]?
novice • Feb 6, 2004 11:46 pm
Moonich?
elSicomoro • Feb 6, 2004 11:48 pm
That cow is gonna milk the publicity from this for all it's worth...
emmtayoe • Feb 7, 2004 12:19 am
I'm loving all these bad puns that are flying...tee hee. This is just one of those situations where they are necessary. ;)
CDNRascal • Feb 7, 2004 3:40 am
Holy cow, she sure seems to be moooving fast! If I hadn't seen the pics I would say this story was a load of bull!
Olikat • Feb 7, 2004 3:56 am
maybe she needed some moooola?


( sorry, I couldn't resist ):angel:
xoxoxoBruce • Feb 7, 2004 7:52 am
Welcome to the Cellar, Olikat.:) I wonder what a cow will do with a free toaster?
Happy Monkey • Feb 7, 2004 9:29 am
I hope it wasn't that bank from "Bowling for Columbine" where you get a free gun.
Elspode • Feb 7, 2004 9:50 am
From the sound of the spokesperson's quote, they didn't really have much of a beef with Bossy...
emmtayoe • Feb 7, 2004 10:01 am
Hah...:p
Sun_Sparkz • Feb 8, 2004 6:42 pm
when i was living in Dubbo (in Australias NSW country farming area) i was sittin in my office and a kangaroo hopped past my desk! it went down into the back tea room and just stood in the corner. It stayed for quite a time and even started to mess up some of our filing that was stacked there. All my fellow co-workers were too scared to go and shoo it out so we had to call a WIRES volunteer to capture it, and take it back out of the town.
wolf • Feb 8, 2004 8:45 pm
I'm quite fond of kangaroos and have found out they can be quite nasty bastards ...
Sun_Sparkz • Feb 8, 2004 9:25 pm
they are cute, and the joes are darlings..
but the big red ones are V scary, they box and wrestle if they feel threatened and can stand on their tails while they pumble you with their gigantic feet. the one in our office was a red kangaroo, about 4.5 feet tall. it wouldnt have been that bad had my boss not taken a happy snap of the poor darling and made it go mental with the flash :eek:
Degrees • Feb 9, 2004 10:13 am
She raised it from a calf, and it followed her everywhere... except inside buildings. :-)

Bad news was that her step-dad had it slaughtered, and she developed a case of Bell's Palsy for a while after that.

She still likes cows. We even have a set of cow dishes that are kinda cute.

(posted from Tulare COWnty - we have more cows than people, and we have nearly 300,000 people.)