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Is Your Cow Suicidal?

Published by Sophie Scripter in Offbeat
September 1, 2009

Strange News: Dozens of cows decide they just can’t take it anymore.

A mysterious thing has happening in the Swiss village of Lauterbrunnen. Over the period of three days, 28  cows have disappeared. It seems they all jumped off a cliff, plunging hundreds of feet.

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(Isn’t this what happened to the Dodos?)

And as if this story out of the Alps isn’t weird enough… this has happened before.        

You’ve seen the ads for the California Dairy industry claiming “great cheese comes from happy cows.” Well, don’t believe it. Near Coarsegold, California 30 cows were found in the Fresno River after they had fallen off a cliff. 

Locals and law enforcement remain baffled. Did a thunderstorm scare them? Were they looking for more grass to graze and forgot to watch where they were walking? Were they members of a new cow cult with a suicide pact? Or is this simply the first sign of the apocalypse?

Upon further research, it would appear they just couldn’t take the rooster anymore.

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13 Comments

  1. Posted September 1, 2009 at 5:33 am

    The grass is always greener on the other side.

  2. Posted September 1, 2009 at 9:16 am

    Cow-ards!

  3. Posted September 1, 2009 at 10:43 am

    Did the cows leave a note?

  4. Posted September 1, 2009 at 11:04 am

    Great title, could not resist reading the article!

  5. Posted September 1, 2009 at 12:39 pm

    lol

  6. Posted September 1, 2009 at 1:24 pm

    Interesting article. I didn’t know a Cow could commit suicide. Maybe there is some other reasonable explanation?

  7. Posted September 1, 2009 at 1:45 pm

    Udderly incredible to think they can be committing suicide; there should be some reason that explains it

  8. Posted September 1, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    Maybe using Lemming genes for genetically engineered cow enhancement was a fault after all …

  9. Posted September 1, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    I liked this! But I mostly wanted to thank you for not putting an image of a cow commiting suicide. When the photo was loading on my computer for a moment I was worried! : – ) Thanks for the article!

  10. Posted September 2, 2009 at 6:42 am

    Perhaps they were part lemings.

  11. Posted September 2, 2009 at 11:10 am

    The title got my attention and read your piece.Has to be a logical explanation for them doing that.But that is a bit strange since its happened before.

  12. Posted September 2, 2009 at 7:11 pm

    The title caught my attention and I couldn’t resist the read. I found it very interesting. Hard to believe that they would commit suicide like that. Had to have been something really wierd to have caused it. Like the stickman said, “maybe a ufo”, and the little green men from Mars scared them so much. Rather than being taken by martians, suicide was an easier option. Ha!

  13. Posted September 4, 2009 at 9:59 am

    How mooving!

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