[arista]

[The calf appeared curious as it walked
towards Kai Bennetts, who said the police ramming
the animal twice was 'inhumane']


The Calf has seen a vet
and is Fine Now



Not the place to have a Wild Animal
running around.

Chris Packham
is full of advice, but was not around to
rope this animal safe.


It is Alive and Well
that's what matters.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...squad-car.html

[Zizu]

I reckon that police driver has a whole world of trouble coming !!

Deserved so


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[Mystic Mock]

The Police are really not covering themselves in glory the last couple of days.

[Zizu]

The policeman who drove into the cow ( twice) has been removed from front line duty as if tonight


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[rusticgal]

They would have been better off cornering the cow with 4 vehicles and getting a vet on the scene to sedate it…

[Livia]

Barbaric.

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Livia

Barbaric.

That's the word for it Livia.

[arista]

The Young Cow
is alive and well.

The Officer is now on desk duty.

[arista]

Originally Posted by rusticgal

They would have been better off cornering the cow with 4 vehicles and getting a vet on the scene to sedate it…

They had 2 cars
No Vets were available


The Young Cow is back on the Farm
The Vet has seen it, it is fine

[MTVN]

I actually don't think the police did much wrong. They'd been trying for hours to catch it and are not really trained or equipped for this situation. Cows are hefty animals and it could have easily done some damage to members of the public and to vehicles. Imagine if it had gone charging into a baby in a pram for instance.

People will happily be there tucking into a beef dinner or a burger as they get outraged over a rampaging cow being immobilised

[MTVN]

Officers who hit an escaped cow with a car "probably did the right thing at the time" according to one union chief and farmer.

A video showing a police car hitting the calf on Friday night on a residential street in Staines-upon-Thames caused widespread outrage.

Surrey Police confirmed on Sunday the driver of the car had been removed from frontline duties.

Hugh Broom, National Farmers' Union's South East livestock chairman, said while he recognised the situation looked "horrendous", officers' options were limited.

He told BBC Radio Surrey: "While the whole thing looks horrendous, and it is for everyone, they probably did the right thing at the time."

The farmer said other options open to the force may have been shooting it or using a tranquiliser dart, though the latter would need proper training.

Mr Broom said: "The other option is you shoot the animal.

"In that environment would you want to be using a rifle in a built up area on a dark Friday night?"

The force previously said the matter had been referred to its professional standards department, and a voluntary referral would be made to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.

Mr Broom added: "God forbid it had gone the other way and the animal ran off and bumped into someone, sent a child flying, sent any person flying, [which is] perfectly possible, and they were seriously injured or worse.

"People would be saying: 'Why wasn’t the animal stopped?'"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg33v21weg3o

[Kazanne]

No need for this calf to have been rammed like that it was uncalled for and to do it twice (some say 3) was just cruel, hope he gets sacked as there were other ways the calf could have been caught,is this calf ok ? Im not sure after a bang like that,or are they just saying that to cover themsellves !!!

[Crimson Dynamo]

Poor thing out late at night

it must have been Fresian

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

No need for this calf to have been rammed like that it was uncalled for and to do it twice (some say 3) was just cruel, hope he gets sacked as there were other ways the calf could have been caught,is this calf ok ? Im not sure after a bang like that,or are they just saying that to cover themsellves !!!

That Officer Driving
now on Desk Duty.

[Beso]

You could argue the cow could have landed on someone after being hit at that speed.

How would you sweep that one under the carpet Mr Broom?

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Kazanne

No need for this calf to have been rammed like that it was uncalled for and to do it twice (some say 3) was just cruel, hope he gets sacked as there were other ways the calf could have been caught,is this calf ok ? Im not sure after a bang like that,or are they just saying that to cover themsellves !!!

Exactly right .

[Crimson Dynamo]

This incident, where cow ramming by car is concerned

certainly has raised the steaks in the debate

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

This incident, where cow ramming by car is concerned

certainly has raised the steaks in the debate

Presumably the officer in question will get a good grilling


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[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by MTVN

I actually don't think the police did much wrong. They'd been trying for hours to catch it and are not really trained or equipped for this situation. Cows are hefty animals and it could have easily done some damage to members of the public and to vehicles. Imagine if it had gone charging into a baby in a pram for instance.

People will happily be there tucking into a beef dinner or a burger as they get outraged over a rampaging cow being immobilised

You're comparing apples & oranges imo.

Eating Meat is a necessary evil, the other is just being cruel for the sake of being cruel.

[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

Poor thing out late at night

it must have been Fresian

[MTVN]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

You're comparing apples & oranges imo.

Eating Meat is a necessary evil, the other is just being cruel for the sake of being cruel.

Not at all, ramming the cow was necessary evil to stop it causing havoc. The police officer didn't just do it for fun

[Ammi]

…although having a cow there in a built up housing area like that was a potential danger to life and not an everyday thing to have to deal with and quite a dilemma for the police…cows aren’t really known as being aggressive beasts…(…I know they can be in herds but that’s not their general characters etc…)…I realise that something was just done without full thought…but it wouldn’t have taken much thought at all to realise that ‘ramming’ any living thing was not a good plan…it’s reported that the police ‘had tried’ other ways but there are no reports of any animal expertise being on the scene and being called…surely a local animal farmer could have helped and advised against a ramming action…

[Zizu]

Originally Posted by MTVN

Not at all, ramming the cow was necessary evil to stop it causing havoc. The police officer didn't just do it for fun

It was a poor decision.. they could have herded it into someone’s front garden easily enough ..


It was a young cow not a full grown bull

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[Mystic Mock]

Originally Posted by Zizu

It was a poor decision.. they could have herded it into someone’s front garden easily enough ..


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Exactly.

[Ammi]

…the young cow btw is called Beau Lucy…

…I mean, confidence in the police as a force and institution is coming under so much criticism in these times and this really isn’t what the public want to see or what will instil trust for their police force in children…it’s a natural instinct to avoid hitting any living thing with a car when driving and very upsetting when it does happen…even the smallest of animals that were so easily not seen etc, it’s very upsetting to hit a living creature with a car…so a mindset of purposefully ‘ramming’ and driving into an animal is not something we feel comfortable seeing….and most especially from a police representative…