COLFAX TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A man says he shot and killed a neighbor's cow after mistaking it for a coyote.
Good thing it wasn't the other way round: "Hey, Elmer, there's somethin' mighty funky about this here barbecue!"
Authorities and the owner are skeptical.
Imagine that.
The undersheriff in northern Michigan's Benzie County says he doesn't see how anyone could confuse a 1,400-pound, pregnant cow with a coyote, which typically weighs 20 to 45 pounds.
Maybe he thought it was Chupacabra and he is too embarrassed at the mistake to admit it now.
And anyway, shooting coyotes is illegal during deer-shooting season. Authorities asked the county prosecutor to bring charges.
Presumably not for shooting coyotes, though.
The 42-year-old man told authorities he was out to shoot coyotes near his home Saturday when he killed the cow, Undersheriff Rory Heckman said. Heckman said the man then tried to drag the cow home.
"Gotta' git that pitcher fer the Guinness book, world's biggest coyote. Who is Guinness anyhoo?"
"The part of his story he his holding to is he shot at a coyote. I don't know how he hit a several-thousand-pound cow mistaking it for a coyote," Heckman said.
Must not be a UFO buff or he would have known to blame the cow-killing on ETs.
The cow, named Hannah, had wandered away from her farm.
Her farm? Does she have any other calves who can inherit or will it go to the county?
"My husband thought that he should go through some therapy looking at repeated pictures of cows and coyotes, because they look nothing alike," said owner DeAnn Mosher. "It didn't make any sense to me."
Must be a lib, first thing she thinks of is sending him to therapy. |