It's Never Too Late To Set Yourself Free.

When good things happen to good cows..

SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) - A cow that escaped last week from a Montana slaughterhouse, leading workers and police on a six-hour chase, will be spared following a wave of popular support, officials said on Tuesday.
Del Morris, manager of Mickey's Packing Plant in Great Falls, said he decided to let the cow live the instant he saw it cross the Missouri River through Great Falls.

Town residents will now decide through a telephone poll whether the cow will remain a resident of Montana, where it will live out its life on pastureland surrounding the packing plant, or be shipped to an animal sanctuary in Seattle.

Morris said the heifer he calls Molly and her escape effort attained celebrity status with television and news organizations requesting interviews and calls pouring in from across the country and overseas.

"I've been around cattle all my life and it's just totally amazing," Morris said, adding that it is a rare cow that escapes slaughter. "I watched her do things that are just not possible for a cow."

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So here are the details of Molly's escape, from what I was able to piece together. The black Angus heifer jumped a 5-foot, 5-inch gate at Mickey's Packing Plant, led a dozen pursuers on a six-hour, eight-mile chase through downtown Great Falls. She outran police and had to dodge an SUV and a semi truck, and then dove in and forded the the frigid Missouri River, earning the nickname Molly B. after the Titanic's "Unsinkable Molly Brown." They are now saying she may be pregnant as well. Yeah Molly! You go girl!!!

The escape route



Molly B. The perp.

 

The cow's name is Molly B.?

Maybe I need to make my escape. Except I'm a human in human captivity.

 

LOLz Molly B and MollyBloom. Moo mates forever!

 

She is, so cool, and cute. I wish i was that brave..........maybe iam...hmmmm.....coolbeans

 

SHE'S FREE,....RIDE THE WIND BABY, DON'T LOOK BACK!!!
RUN, RUN, RUN!!!

Molly Mc Butter is jake in my book baby!

When humans fail, the Molly leads the way!

 

they better let her live, afterall americans are the ones rooting for the underdog. bow-wow.

 

lol, made me laugh, nice one.
good for the cow. that story reminded me of the tamworth two, they were two brave pigs. i hope they let her live, what an excellent animal.

 

Cows are all over here where I live. (1998 rainbow gathering area) so are the paddies! And you know what grows on the paddies during monsoon season.
Cheers

 

I have cowaphobia (ows are freaky) I just so happen to live in the county and on the topic of cows. a cop in my home town accidentaly hit a cow with the cop car and wrecked it sadly to say the cow did not make it.

 

A good late night session of cow tipping will fix that phobia.

 

This story is even cooler than the cow story. This happened last month.

Daring rescue of whale off Farallones
Diver calls encounter with migrating leviathan trapped by crab lines 'an epic moment in my life'
A humpback whale freed by divers from a tangle of crab trap lines near the Farallon Islands nudged its rescuers and flapped around in what marine experts said was a rare and remarkable encounter.

"It felt to me like it was thanking us, knowing that it was free and that we had helped it," James Moskito, one of the rescue divers, said Tuesday. "It stopped about a foot away from me, pushed me around a little bit and had some fun."

Sunday's daring rescue was the first successful attempt on the West Coast to free an entangled humpback, said Shelbi Stoudt, stranding manager for the Marine Mammal Center in Marin County.

The 45- to 50-foot female humpback, estimated to weigh 50 tons, was on the humpbacks' usual migratory route between the Northern California coast and Baja California when it became entangled in the nylon ropes that link crab pots.

It was spotted by a crab fisherman at 8:30 a.m. Sunday in the open water east of the Farallones, about 18 miles off the coast of San Francisco.

Mick Menigoz of Novato, who organizes whale watching and shark diving expeditions on his boat the New Superfish, got a call for help Sunday morning, alerted the Marine Mammal Center and gathered a team of divers.

By 2:30 p.m., the rescuers had reached the whale and evaluated the situation. Team members realized the only way to save the endangered leviathan was to dive into the water and cut the ropes.

It was a very risky maneuver, Stoudt said, because the mere flip of a humpback's massive tail can kill a man.

"I was the first diver in the water, and my heart sank when I saw all the lines wrapped around it," said Moskito, a 40-year-old Pleasanton resident who works with "Great White Adventures," a cage-diving outfit that contracts with Menigoz. "I really didn't think we were going to be able to save it."

Moskito said about 20 crab-pot ropes, which are 240 feet long with weights every 60 feet, were wrapped around the animal. Rope was wrapped at least four times around the tail, the back and the left front flipper, and there was a line in the whale's mouth.

The crab pot lines were cinched so tight, Moskito said, that the rope was digging into the animal's blubber and leaving visible cuts.

At least 12 crab traps, weighing 90 pounds each, hung off the whale, the divers said. The combined weight was pulling the whale downward, forcing it to struggle mightily to keep its blow- hole out of the water.

Moskito and three other divers spent about an hour cutting the ropes with a special curved knife. The whale floated passively in the water the whole time, he said, giving off a strange kind of vibration.

"When I was cutting the line going through the mouth, its eye was there winking at me, watching me," Moskito said. "It was an epic moment of my life."

When the whale realized it was free, it began swimming around in circles, according to the rescuers. Moskito said it swam to each diver, nuzzled him and then swam to the next one.

"It seemed kind of affectionate, like a dog that's happy to see you,'' Moskito said. "I never felt threatened. It was an amazing, unbelievable experience."

Humpback whales are known for their complex vocalizations that sound like singing and for their acrobatic breaching, an apparently playful activity in which they lift almost their entire bodies out of the water and splash down.

Before 1900, an estimated 15,000 humpbacks lived in the North Pacific, but the population was severely reduced by commercial whaling. In the 20th century, their numbers dwindled to fewer than 1,000. An international ban on commercial whaling was instituted in 1964, but humpbacks are still endangered. Between 5,000 and 7,500 humpbacks are left in the world's oceans, and many of those survivors migrate through the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary.

Whale experts say it's nice to think that the whale was thanking its rescuers, but nobody really knows what was on its mind.

"You hate to anthropomorphize too much, but the whale was doing little dives and the guys were rubbing shoulders with it," Menigoz said. "I don't know for sure what it was thinking, but it's something that I will always remember. It was just too cool."

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Poor thing! Well I am glad she was able to be rescued, and if u ask me I think if she was able to talk she would have said, thanks. In her own way she was thankful.In her own animal way she is thankful.

 

thats freakin hilarious.....My folks have always lived out in the country and when my grandaddy got back from WW2 he worked as a volunteer police officer in this small alabama farming town where my folks are from.....well if you knwo my grandaddy, he is THE biggest prankster in the world and is always doing something crazy....well one day he was riding in the patrol car with another officer and there was a cow in the middle of the road and it wouldnt move....so my grandaddy told the other guy to pull over....so he pulls over and was like..what the hell are you doing....grandaddy said - you go on and drive back to the station, I am arresting this cow for blocking traffic and not following my order for it to move.....so their chief was away for the weekend and my grandaddy walked the cow back to the station and let it graze outside the station and took some feeed over there......when the chief got back he flipped and was like...WHY IS THERE A COW AT THE STATION...and my grandaddy told him about how he had artrested the cow. muahaha...peace.

 

This is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard, the cow is not a person.

 

You have no sense of poetry in your soul man.
Of course a cow is not a person, but what prevents us from accepting that a cow is a fellow living creature subject to our interpretation of what we do not know about it's level of awareness, or perhaps sencience.

Have some fun, and loosen up baby!

 

AWWWW!

That's incredible. Makes me sooo happy.

 

That cow is an inspiration.

 

If I ever see that stupid cow, I'm gonna call it dinner.

 

Wow, you said hate twice.

Other than the fact that you apparently "Hate" Hippies,...

What do you really know about hippies?

I have a job
took a shower
And have long hair.

You might want to move out of hate city,
it's not a healthy place to be.