Stunning Video: Canadian Police Open Fire on Runaway Cow
- Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:18am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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I grew up in the farm country of Wisconsin and have seen my fair share of animals having to be put down with a gun in order to spare them pain (I’ve even had to do it myself). But I have to say, I’ve never seen anything quite like this. Warning, what you are about to witness may be disturbing.
Police officers in Gatineau, Quebec tried on Thursday to corral two runaway cows that had escaped on the way to slaughter. “Tried” is the key word. See, they weren’t able to capture the cows. After determining the animals were a danger to local residents and officers (they were charging and acting erratically), the police open fired on one of the cows about 10 times.
The incident was captured on video by some local residents who go from chuckles to disbelief in a matter of seconds:
[Content warning for language and graphic images]
By the way, police reportedly got permission from the animals’ owner before shooting and killing the animals.
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Comments (197)
markgl
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:11amPoor cow. You can’t take a animal down like that with a hand gun! Use a high powered rifle or something big enough that it won’t suffer such a terrible death!
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:53amUNION THUGS AT IT AGAIN
These Union Thugs in uniform acted the same way in Madison, Wisconsin when they sided with the Teacher’s Thug Union and opened up the doors to the State House. The police and teacher thugs cause over $7Million in vandalism to the State House. The police even turned on TEA protesters who had permits to protest but were beaten by the police. America’s police now take an oath to the Union to protect the Union.
Report Post »Jumper
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:03amI’m with you on this one. I know my meat at the store comes from cow like this, but for crying out loud, shoot that critter with the right gun!! Stupid Canadians, hang guns are for people, not 800lb cows!!!
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:06amA 12 gauge slug would have taken it down immediately. This was like trying to take down a tree with a Dremel instead of a chain saw. Idiots. This was Tim the Tool Man with a gun.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:14amLook like city cops to me. Don’t know how to corral a cow with their cars. Watch out for that cow, it’s charginggggg. AHHH, don’t let it bite me!
Report Post »At least, shoot it in the head. If they’d walk calmly, they could have probably walked right up to it.
Citiots.
KickinBack
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:40amDat der looked like idwas wun dainjururs cow eh? I rekun we need ta shoot it. Gots nutin else to shoot anyway.
Report Post »ketchiman
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:14pmI could have killed that cow with one shot from a .22cb, MARKGL. If you own ANY firearms, please sell them to someone who knws how to handle them, or turn them in to your local sherriff’s office. Like these Keystone Kops, you make the mistake of thinking that volume of lead is more important than placement.
Report Post »ProbIemSoIver
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:18pmAll they needed was a lassoing cowboy or a tranquilizing gun !!!
Report Post »People are ignorant beyond comprehension !!!
90% of the populace are morons, and make me physically ill.
countryfirst
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 12:26pmA 22 mag calmly and in the right spot will take a cow down. They were afraid of it, and not taking any chance on personal injury. Should have called in for some common sense.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:50pmPoor cow. I guess it thought the grass was greener… A rifle bullet between the eyes is a humane way to kill a cow for butchering. I hope the cops acted strictly out of public safety and not out of ignorance because with their Glocks, they surely made a mess and contributed to the suffering of the poor cow that was apparently guilty only of wanting to see what was on the other side of the fence. I hope they butchered it and by law, the meat belongs to the farmer.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:55pmDon‘t get me wrong I’m no PETA nut but they could have gotten that steer (not a cow ,looked to be a denutted bull) without killing it. If they did need to kill it they could have done it quicker and more humanely with a rifle and one shot to the head but considering Canada’s restrictive gun laws ,by the time a farmer ( for instance) went through the necessary steps involved to get his own gun and permission to use it ,if at all , the steer would have died of old age.
Report Post »pitboss711
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 1:59pmAfraid of a cow? What a bunch of *******.
Report Post »Dustoff
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:36pmNot all officers carry high powered guns.
Report Post »silentwatcher
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:51pmSymbolic. That cow is the citizen and we are close to being in the same situation very, very soon. Cows, however, cannot shoot back.
Report Post »neesershea
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 3:24pmIt’s sooo stupid! Why didn’t they just call a vet and have it tranqilized instead of killing it. It’s a cow for goodness sake NOT some raging bull…. The police acted stupidly (:
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 3:56pmIf you notice the background in the video, it is brush and trees. Also the road looks like it is a two lane rural road. Not too many people around. It looks like the police were taking target practice on the cow. Looks like the only danger was the police. We have cows and calves get out of their pastures here all the time and I have never heard of anyone getting hurt, but of course, our police don’t shoot cows.
Report Post »motonutt
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 5:35pmI understand why it had to go down. These same people that are all outraged over them killing it would have been even more outraged if the cow ran over little Johnny on his bicycle on his way home from school, cows injure or kill way more people evey year that bulls do. But I agree those cops should have come up with a high power rifle or a shotgun with some slugs or 00 buck. It’s going to take a lot of rounds with a 9 or a 40 to put that thing down. Way stupid.
Report Post »free123
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 5:51pmJumper, if you dont stop blaming all of Canada “Stupid Canadians” for the actions of a few nuts up here I am going to post all over the internet “Stupid Americans” for every action the nuts on your side of the border commit. And what I see posted on the Blaze you have just as many of them if not more then we do. Think before you post….you obviously dont. These cops obviously were rookies and weren’t raised on a farm eh? Scared of cows. Maybe they thought it was a bear:)
Report Post »dasbunker
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 7:39pmThis is why Canada will never invade the United States.
12 Cops with pistols trying to kill a cow with pistols.
One shot from a pistol would end it mercifully, if you know how to shoot.
Report Post »Did they think it would compile be shooting it in the legs?
circleDwagons
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:17pmcow? that’s not a cow but a MONSTER they needed more firepower and to form a circle
my 4 yr old could have walked that small steer to its house :) good grief
Report Post »raydg
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 2:55amThose cops are a bunch of city slickers. I am quite sure that at least one of them had a shotgun in their squad car. Also from what I saw the cow doing, could they not herd the cow with their cars? I did that with deer at Rocky Mountain Arsenal during the 1980′s when there were too many trapped behind the fence surrounding the chemical plant. Also could they not find any farmers or ranchers or at least someone that had experience? I do understand that the cow was going to be slaughtered, but why handguns? Idiots!
Report Post »AJAYW
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:06amThat is a bunch of gun happy PUNK cops, to bad the cow couldn’t shoot back hitting them in the guts and legs. SICK BASTARDS
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:46amIf the police knew that their antics were being videoed, they would have turned their guns and attention on the person with the camera. If they knew the video was being taken they would have smashed the camera. This video will soon be removed from You Tube. Wait and see.
Report Post »The_Almighty_Creestof
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:09amAnd people expect these gutless officers to come to their defense when they have to gun down a freaking cow? What is next? Tase a renegade chicken?
Buy your own weapons and protect yourself…cause these clowns will be investigating a donut shop when some crack addict is breaking in your door.
Absolute cowardice.
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 4:24pmThanks, I got this mental image of a tazered chicken in my head and can’t quit laughing.
Report Post »J.Canuck
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:06amAh…. La Sûreté du Québec at their finest.
These are the worst town clowns in Canada, which is saying something. These guys couldn’t catch a cold.
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:01amThe French Cops in Quebec are really messed up. I remember I was driving on a Highway in La Belle Province (Quebec Province) I had California Plates and was speeding at 100 mph ( I admit It) so the Provincial Police is behind me flashing with sirens. I pull over and the cop goes on the loud speaker to order me to get out of the car and put my wallet on the hood and keep my hands up. Then he gets out with his gun drawn pointing it at me. Once the situation cooled down he asked me why I was going 100. I said all the signs said 100 and I was just trying to stay with the speed limit. The signs are in Kph posted at 100kph= approx 62 mph. He didn’t find it funny and gave me a citation for $350.00. The point is that those cops in Quebec never see any action and hardly ever get a chance to draw a fire-arm. So any opportunity they get that is perceived as a threat they pull it with glee. I am sure that was the most action he had all month. Very different in Ontario Province. The OPP is very polite and helpful. Two different worlds.
Report Post »listeninginVT
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:25amI don’t know Canada police, but I didn’t see anyone w/ a rope, and have Never seen an animal ‘come’ to a moving vehicle, sorry I forgot the sirens. grew up around farms etc, this is a joke of a performance of how to catch a cow.
Report Post »punyhuman
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 2:06amHere in Canada, we are docile to a fault. Oooh, sorry ’bout that. So naturally, the law enforcement community have no moving targets left to shoot at, especially in quebec where they have finally rounded up all the outlaw biker types. Oooops, sorry again. My fault should have been looking…
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:03amMaybe they got confused and thought that donuts come from cows.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:02amI hear banjos.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:16amAre you kidding? That‘s clearly a bunch of city slickers who don’t realize that all they‘d have to do is throw a rope over it’s head and lead it where they wanted it to go. They’re probably scared of the poor thing.
Report Post »JWINK56
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:52ami know 12 year olds here in Tx that could have sovled that issue! GEEZ! Bet they have never drawn and fired on a real man who alos had a gun! SISSY’S
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 2:43pmHoly Poop! It was only a Feeder, what a circus. I have to say I have kill more animals then most people have eaten and that disturbed me. Out of all of those cops that was the plan? Wonder if they all went to the saloon and laughed about it the eve. I hate to say it……But where the hell was PETA?
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 2:48pmOh by the way, pretty sure that was a little steer not a cow.
Report Post »TX_45_ACP
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:02amThat was pathetic. These guys must be really bored. A kill shot would have done just fine. A friend of mine is an LEO who let me ride with him a while back. We came across an injured deer that was suffering. He took out his rifle and put an end to it immediately. That’s the way to do it. Those guys shot the cow as if it was a patriot escaping the re-education camp…
Report Post »Tired-of-fools
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:01amThat’s what you get when you have idots with guns trying to do something they know nothing about. I grew up on a farm with both beef and dairy cows. No wonder they could catch it, the cars and sirens prevented that. What a bunch of morons. That steer probably posed no threat to anyone. For the most part, they are afraid of humans, unless you are the guy that’s feeding it. We had two bulls that we could walk up to pet, and feed out of our hands. Beef cows are generally nonaggressive. It is rare to have one act aggressively unless provoked or cornered. Morons.
Report Post »texasfarmer
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:59amThe safest place to be is in front of them.
Report Post »CO2Maker
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:53amWe have a word for that down here. Bull.
That’s not a cow, Blaze-writer.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:50amTypical Canucks – the entire country is like Keystone Cops – kinda like this country is turning into.
Report Post »audiemurphy
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:54amwhat a clown comment !
Report Post »Canada has been“ George Sorosed ” for many years! But to say Canada is a country of keystone cops is like saying The states are like a bunch of Obamas! Or the only sane state is Texas or Alabama is the Capital of the KKK!
These are Quebec ( French idiots) cops that will probably get a pee pee slap once their superiors see this footage!
I see my US brothers are now being George Sorosed !
We up here north of the 49 will surely continue to be in awe of what is taking place in your own kitchen!
Zorro6821
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:29amHAUSCHILD@……You are so simple minded. You say Canada is like the Keystone Cops. Well you are as dumb as Perry. Canada has a vibrant economy and economically doing the best of the G8 Countries. One more thing Moron, Canada is the biggest supplier of oil to the USA. I have been there many times and find the cities to be clean and the people polite and friendly. Kinda what the USA was 40 years ago. Yes the video was funny, but to base a nations character on a funny video just shows you how stupid you are. Your an embarrassment to our nation.
Report Post »SmallGovBigGuns
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:50amthat was just sad. get a red white blue blooded american cowboy up there and round it up.
Report Post »HairRazor
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:46ambizarre, dumb, sad, and lastly, stupid..
Report Post »KEA
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:43amWhat a sad day when the police think using a pistol to put down an animal of hat size is going to work without huge suffering.
Pull out the shotgun or rifle and do it right! No excuse for causing more suffering.
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:47amWhen’s the BBQ?
Report Post »@leftfighter
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:50amThis would be sad if that wasn’t a baseball glove and some nice thick steaks running around.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:59amI’m suffering not being invited to the BBQ, hell I’ll buy the Molson or St Paulie Girl.
Report Post »Secessionista
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:42amI didn’t even know it was cow season already, better go clean my guns, lol.
That’s messed up. But it is exactly how the police do most of their killing, too. Perps don’t die instantly, they get winged and hobbled by the bad shot who draws first. The calf was breathing labored because one bullet early on went in his back side and through a lung. He was suffocating as he tried to flee.
Nice work, mounties! NOT.
Report Post »cristo52
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:39amWelcome to the new bread of cops in America. What a couple op jackasses.
Report Post »felix
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:50amcanada, derf wad
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:02amIt’s amazing how many people comment on The Blaze without reading the article they are commenting about. It’s like saying “I didn’t read the article, but I know what it will be about so I’m going to comment”
Report Post »duckwalker
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:02am@cristo52 I assume you mean Canadian North Americans right? Gatineau, Quebec is in Canada.
@piper60, they are likely French Canadians. I‘m surprised they didn’t throw down their guns and surrender to the cows.
If they were dairy cows I would have thought they were making Swiss Cheese, as many shots as they fired.
Report Post »c0mm0nsense
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 2:54pmI thought Canada was part of the USA? We dont own that? Boy thats really messed up. They have like 90% of there population massed on our border. Better not tell the neo-cons.
Report Post »rabblechat
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:37amAnd that is why you don’t hunt 800lb animals with a 9mm. I’m not sure why they felt the need to off this cow in the first place, but a shotgun or rifle would have been a much better tool for the job.
Report Post »Doug in Seattle
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:29amA wrangler with a rope could have solved their problem in half the time and at less than half the expense.
Report Post »piper60
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:44amThey are CANADIANS, need I say more?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:29amThey were scared of a COW??? Bunch of frog-eating pansies…..
Report Post »Thundermeister
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:29amCrappy aim…. but then, the French have never been known for their aim. Ended up costing them North America.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:01amlol, I’m sure there is outrage that a white flag was not waived at the cow.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:28amOk, so the crime is “makin dinner”. I’m sure there were some folks ooot and abooot lookin for chow.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:27am“Eat mor chiken”
Report Post »ontheclock247
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:27amDoes everyone talk like that anymore? How crude have we become? Every video is laced with f…this, and f…that. Sorry, it’s a cow! But, the people are more barbaric in their speech than shooting a cow!
Report Post »RRFlyer
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 10:04amYou are right on. Not only on videos, even Facebook and in front of their children
Report Post »hightide
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:26amSteak!!!!!
When did women start using the F word so much? It used to be insulting for men to use it in a ladies presence, now the women are cussing like drunk sailors. Disgusting.
As for the cow, I’m not sure why they thought a 9m would take it down, or why they thought it was necessary. I’m sure the owner would like to have it back.
Report Post »ontheclock247
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:50amYep, that’s what I said.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 11:21amSame thing here. I never use that language in the presence of a lady, but these were no ladies.
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on November 1, 2011 at 6:36amHightide@….just in case any of the deep thinkers on the blaze never read the article. The cops did get permission of the owner to shoot the cow. How they carried out the operation is another story.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:24am.
Planning for the Station Thanksgiving BBQ……….
But for real why shoot the cow? Not to mention all the shots fired, they should be charged with Animal Cruelty. Shoot the thing in the head, if you gonna shoot Barney……….
Report Post »PropstotheGast
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 2:00pmProbably because they didnt have the needed equipment or training to safely capture the animals. The owner gave the go ahead because the cost of the police intervention was going to quickly exceed the value of the animal. As for why it took so many shots, unless the police officer was a trained hunter he would not know how to down a large animal with a low velocity weapon. Charging them with animal cruelty for responding to an emergency animal control situation would be like charging the EMT’s with murder if the patient died on the way to the hospital.
Report Post »drago
Posted on October 31, 2011 at 9:23amThats just f-d up eh………
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