By now you’ve probably seen the clip that went ridiculously viral over the weekend of Surrey Police ramming a 10-month-old calf in the middle of the road. Here’s the footage in case you missed it:
Police try to stop an escaped cow by ramming it with their car in Feltham, West London pic.twitter.com/kRTnGRr5SH
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Obviously a very unusual situation for the police to deal with, but I don’t think anyone in their right mind would have thought that ramming the terrified creature with a police car was the most appropriate way of dealing with things.
It now turns out however that police rammed into the calf 5 TIMES during the incident, with warehouse worker Kai Bennett telling the Times he saw a police 4×4 hit the animal ‘at about 30mph’: ‘The police officer got back in the car, did a U-turn and ran it over again. Everyone was screaming, thinking it was dead.’
Mr Bennett said he saw the calf get hit twice more, adding: ‘I heard on the police radio them calling for firearms officers, so I stayed with it and told them there’s no way I was letting them shoot it.’
Meanwhile, the partner of the farmer who owns the calf, gave an update on her condition. Kate said the cow, called Beau Lucy, did not suffer any broken bones, but was ‘really agitated’ and ‘scared’ when she arrived back at the farm, and they were worried she would die of shock.
However, she added the young cow had calmed down since, is eating and drinking so ‘hopefully she’ll live’, so that’s good news.
Surrey Police confirmed the officer behind the wheel has stepped down while investigations into the incident, which has caused outrage, are carried out. All I can think of to say in the officer’s defence is that if this cow somehow ran into and injured/killed a member of the public, then we may be asking why he didn’t ram into the cow sooner. Then again all they really had to do was call a vet or some kind of animal expert to tranquillise the cow and then call the farmer to come collect his calf. It doesn’t sound like this young animal was posing any danger to anyone at all, it was just confused and probably scared out of its mind.
Anyway, good to hear that Beau Lucy is on the road to recovery. Will be interesting to see what disciplinary action the police officer faces, if any at all.
Meanwhile, over in the States, a police officer has been sacked for participating in an OnlyFans video while on duty. Not been a great few days for the police, has it?
