{"id":17604,"date":"2015-05-20T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17604"},"modified":"2015-05-20T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T10:25:45","slug":"tyne-police-foil-bovine-terror-plot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=17604","title":{"rendered":"Tyne Police Foil Bovine Terror Plot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you couldn\u2019t make it up. <a title=\"Memorial vigil planned for shot Wallsend cow Bessie\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-tyne-32800365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Three cows \u201cescaped\u201d from a country park in North Tyneside<\/a>. Two were recaptured, but one &#8211; Bessie &#8211; was shot \u201cin the interests of public safety\u201d after apparently attempting to rob several local banks and then going on the run.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"A cow - like the one Northumbria police had to take down\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 524px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 524\/390;border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 5px 10px 5px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"A cow - like the one Northumbria police had to take down\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/cow1.jpg\" width=\"524\" align=\"left\" height=\"390\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\"><\/p>\n<p>John Millard, a photographer, witnessed the scene:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;there was a &#8220;massive police presence&#8221; with more than 15 police vehicles, a helicopter hovering overhead, and three or four officers in sniper gear.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Northumbria police were anxious to talk it up into the serious threat that it wasn\u2019t, though:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;[the cow] was destroyed after becoming &#8220;increasingly distressed&#8221; and &#8220;causing dangerous and severe obstructions&#8221; on a major road.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I wonder why the cow was becoming \u201cdistressed\u201d, Mr Police Spokesman? I mean, it couldn\u2019t have had anything to do with dozens of people chasing it (i.e. at least two officers in each of the 15+ vehicles) and no doubt shouting and pretending to be Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a helicopter, could it?<\/p>\n<p>The local residents are keeping the surrealness alive by organising a candle-lit vigil for the dead cow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you couldn\u2019t make it up. Three cows \u201cescaped\u201d from a country park in North Tyneside. Two were recaptured, but one &#8211; Bessie &#8211; was shot \u201cin the interests of public safety\u201d after apparently attempting to rob several local banks and then going on the run. John Millard, a photographer, witnessed the scene: &#8230;there was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[99,87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-related","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}