AUDIO: COPS LASSO RUNAWAY CALF ON HIGHWAY
Police in Paris, Tennessee, got a call about a loose calf on a local highway. They caught it by sticking a cowboy on the hood of the patrol car and driving alongside the baby cow. Henry County Sheriff Monte Belew shared video of the capture on Facebook as his friend David Bevill rode on the hood of his car with a rope to lasso the calf. The calf can be seen strolling along the highway between a pair of police cars as Bevill readied his lasso and managed to rope the cow in one try.
* Was the cow taking it on the lam?
* Next up for the cops: patrol car barrel racing and perp wrangling.
* “To Protect and to Serve and to Git Along Them Little Dogies.”
* Sure, shooting a tranquilizer dart would have worked, but where’s the flair in that?
* Paris, Tennessee … so classy and yet down-home as well.
* I wonder if they’re rude like the French but with a twang in their accents?
* Personally, I think “calf” sounds more appropriate than “baby cow.”
* I mean you don’t pull a muscle in your baby cow, right? No, you pull it in your calf.
* Memo to the calf: If you’re fleeing you might want to stick to the back roads and avoid the highway.
CLIP: Audio from the calf roping.
