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WOAI News

Flying Cow Leaves Two Police Cars in Flames
LAST UPDATE: 3/17/2006 5:06:56 PM
Posted By: Mandi Bishop

Talk about a wild night near Seguin. A cow came flying out of its trailer, sent DPS and police scrambling, and left two police cars going up in flames.

"It was almost hard to believe," said Detective Sergeant Maureen Watson. She has been in law enforcement for 15 years, and says she "never had a day like this. I mean the best way to characterize this it, is it's bizarre. It's really really strange."

It's strange because it started out with a truck towing cattle, and ended in fire.

Watson told News 4 WOAI, "We believe the gate of the cattle trailer came open, and the cow, for lack of a better phrase spilled out onto the Interstate. It was pretty chaotic for a while."

Several cars hit some of the cows. One cow died. DPS troopers called for backup.

That's when one officer was nearly run down by a speeding truck, carrying two illegal immigrants inside.

Seguin Police were out looking for those illegal immigrants. They parked their cars in the hot grass, burning two of them including that brand new 2006 Crown Victoria. Watson said, "Well, all of a sudden, another officer who'd arrived on the scene, alerted the sergeant that there was a fire."

Everything inside was destroyed, including tens of thousands of dollars worth of equipment designed for the patrol cars.

"You start off with kind of a bizarre accident with these cows spilling onto the interstate. That leads to other accidents, that leads to a car chase, that leads to a foot chase," Watson recalls.

The two mexican immigrants, ages 21 and 23, are in custody for illegally entering the country and evading arrest. Watson says they have replacement cars for now, but hope the city council will vote to get new cars soon.

Obviously, the cows were not cows at all. They were Minutemen in cow costumes executing a sting operation to catch illegal immigrants. DPS stumbles into it an chaos ensues.

HighVelocity wrote:Obviously, the cows were not cows at all. They were Minutemen in cow costumes executing a sting operation to catch illegal immigrants. DPS stumbles into it an chaos ensues.

Either that, or the "illegals" are becoming more sophisticated.

Perhaps they have managed to train cows to "run interference" for them, while they (the illegals) make good their escape.

Nobody ever accused a cow of being too bright.

Only in Texas if theres dead beef around y'all will find someway to cook it

"they parked their cars in the hot grass"

LOL, the grass wasnt hot, it was the patrol cars hot engine which caught the grass on fire and burned up the cars.

Even my grandmother knows that!

dihappy wrote:"they parked their cars in the hot grass"

LOL, the grass wasnt hot, it was the patrol cars hot engine which caught the grass on fire and burned up the cars.

Even my grandmother knows that!

Actually it was the catalytic converter. Ya know the device that supposed to keep the air nice and clean? I bet one could see the smoke from those burning cruisers from miles away.

dihappy wrote:"they parked their cars in the hot grass"

LOL, the grass wasnt hot, it was the patrol cars hot engine which caught the grass on fire and burned up the cars.

Even my grandmother knows that!

Ha funny how I just read right past that!! No kidding!!!

"One dark night when we were all in bed, this ole lady left the lantern in the shed, and when the cow kicked it over she winked her eye and said, "Thar be a hot time, in the ole town, toniiiight!" FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!!!

Seguin seems like a hoppin' place these days!