Peskyfoxs Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Got a call on my mobile last night, police informing me that a motorcyclist had come off his bike up the road after he thought he hit a cow They wanted to know if the cow was from the farm I live on so i jumped in the car and went up the road, the biker had been whisked off in an ambulance with a suspected broken collar bone and injured pelvis and hidden in the undergrowth was a black beef cow. The road is unlit so the guy had come round a corner in the pitch black only to hit a large black mass... the cow Cow seemed uninjured but had jumped a fence into a piece of set aslide land with no gate, hung round with the copper whilst the recovery truck picked up the smashed bike and awaited farm manager to arrive, only for cow to make a break for freedom. Managed to herd it into a gateway only for it to dissapear into woodland again, next thing a car stops asking if we are looking a cow as one was hurtling up the road 1/4 mile away ... we jump in police car and tear after it blue lights a flashing B) Eventually caught up with cow in next village and I managed to get it in a couples garden before it made it to a more major road, farm manager arranged and a trailer was borrowed and cow returned to field. The gate is a metal 5 bar and the cow was fairly small so farm manager went to check fence line only to come back with a fresh cut conifer branch ... some low life had driven into the field and dumped a load of garden waste, obviously left gate open long enough for cow to escape and shut gate behind it If the biker hadn't only hit it a glancing blow or if it had been a car then might have been a lot more serious Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Isn't country life great!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old rooster Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Hope the rider is OK, I've had a similar experience in a car and narrowly avoided hitting a full grown cow in the middle of the road at night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frenchieboy Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Never a dull moment is there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peskyfoxs Posted October 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Rider should heal ok, glad he didn't end up in the drainage ditch as he had no mobile with him and its was a passing motorist that found him ... had he been in bad way in the ditch no one would have seen him. I was worried they were calling to ask me to despatch the cow but it seemed perfectly well .. could certainly get a good turn of speed up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imperfection Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Hope the rider is ok. I've hit many breeds of animals over the years with the worst being a duck which almost made it through my windscreen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Prawn Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Remember those glow in the dark mice they bred a few years back? If that works on cows we could prevent further road accidents Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peskyfoxs Posted October 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Remember those glow in the dark mice they bred a few years back? If that works on cows we could prevent further road accidents Great idea ... I'm going to get a black cow suit for rabbiting & foxing .... I would be almost invisible Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leeds chimp Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 lucky guy really Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mighty Prawn Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Great idea ... I'm going to get a black cow suit for rabbiting & foxing .... I would be almost invisible This is a brilliant idea! Charlie gets wise to the bloke with a gun but doesn't think twice about the cows, he'd walk right past! One barrell in each teat on the udder, total 360 firepower, like a tank with legs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old rooster Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 lucky guy really Not sure I've ever seen the act of coming off the bike as "lucky" ? LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malik Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Not your average night then lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikky Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 you couldnt make that up....i came off my motorbike once ...lost the front end on a bend which was covered in cow **** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88b Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 you couldnt make that up....i came off my motorbike once ...lost the front end on a bend which was covered in cow **** Same thing happened to me in Italy in 2010 cow 5h*t and diesel , at 25 mph £4000 of damage. I'd say the rider was lucky he could easily been killed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Mongrel- Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Not sure I've ever seen the act of coming off the bike as "lucky" ? LOL With you on that one, but sounds like he could have been a hell of a lot unluckier! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Great idea ... I'm going to get a black cow suit for rabbiting & foxing .... I would be almost invisible But what if a motorbike crashes in to you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peskyfoxs Posted October 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Not sure I've ever seen the act of coming off the bike as "lucky" ? LOL But if he had ended up in the ditch no one walks down there at night, could have been there all night so unlucky to hit a cow, lucky he should be fit to ride a bike again I'm a couple of months But what if a motorbike crashes in to you? Hmmm didn't think if that, not standing in the middle of the road at night should help avoid that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TIGHTCHOKE Posted October 10, 2013 Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Hmmm didn't think if that, not standing in the middle of the road at night should help avoid that What about trial bike riders, they go off road! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peskyfoxs Posted October 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2013 Ok so it was a cunning plan worthy of Baldrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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