Unruly Cows Descend On Upscale Neighborhood Night After Night

[Demovictory9]

Unruly Cows Descend On Upscale Neighborhood Night After Night
The brash bovines have been tearing up lawns, scaring people and nearly causing car accidents, residents of a San Jose, California, neighborhood say.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cows-san-jose-california_n_5d65b7a4e4b01fcc690b6b44

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People living in a pricey area of San Jose, California, have been dealing with an unexpected problem: nightly onslaughts of cows and bulls tearing up lawns, pooping everywhere and refusing to be shooed off by tactics like sprinklers.

Residents of Whitetail Lane in the neighborhood of Evergreen told The Mercury News earlier this week that the bovines started showing up a couple of months ago and began descending on the area on a near-nightly basis, departing again before dawn.

Some describe the cows as frighteningly bold.

“They ran toward us,” resident Tom Quach told the paper, describing an incident he said involved about six animals. “We turned on the sprinklers, but they just stood there and took a shower.”

While there are many grazing cows not too far from the neighborhood, it’s been somewhat of a mystery exactly where these particular cows were coming from. Jay Terrado of San Jose Animal Services told NBC Bay Area on Wednesday that the agency has identified a nearby man who believes the delinquent cows may belong to him and that someone has been cutting his fencing.

Terrado told news station KGO that despite the cows reportedly causing problems for the past two months, he only learned about the issue this week.

Quach added he’s spent hundreds of dollars replacing broken sprinkler heads damaged by the cows.

Residents speaking with various local media outlets also describe the large animals as a traffic hazard, saying they’ve had close calls behind the wheel after a cow surprised them in a road or driveway.

[nocoincidences]

1. Cows with Guns

[mopinko]

2. dang. i get called out every time there is a chicken loose in my hood.

mine are behind a 6' fence, and rarely get out. but everyone knows i have chickens and every time anyone posts of fb that there is a chicken somewhere it doesnt belong, i get tagged.

how does this guy get away w this?

[Demovictory9]

12. these cows have swagger

[Hortensis]

24. Lol, my exact thought. Cows walking loose in an upscale

neighborhood of San Jose more than a few hours one time? Just how likely would that be?

The bizarre news these days is starting to make me wonder if someone's been doing too much time traveling and damaging the space-time continuum. That's how people went crazy in 2016 and we got Trump. Maybe it's the cows who are passing through a wormhole...

[amerikat]

3. Devin Nunes cows?

https://twitter.com/devincow?lang=en

[Sanity Claws]

10. That is what I thought too!

[Control-Z]

15. Yup. Me too. eom

[Lulu KC]

28. +1

[Crunchy Frog]

4. Does one of them belong to Devin Nunes? n/t

[Stinky The Clown]

5. Devin . . . . . Devin . . . . . izzat you?

[DBoon]

6. Pink Floyd?

[CatMor]

7. I think it's pretty funny ...

that the cows go out every night to party.

[Codeine]

8. Their own fault for having such nice milkshakes. nt

[Laffy Kat]

9. Why are they complaining?

They get their lawns mowed and fertilized for free. The homeowners should be paying for this service.

[tblue37]

11. I wonder if Devin Nunes' cow is among them, angry over being sued. nt

[Blue_true]

19. Good guess. I wonder whether it has on a mustache mask to stay on the downlow? nt

[Hoyt]

13. I can't get mad at cows.

[KT2000]

17. me either

Love those big brown eyes and gentle nature. Live near some and you never see fights.

[Newest Reality]

14. That's udderly rediculous,

and it puts me in the MOOD for some cheese from cows that have a good sense of humor:

[jberryhill]

30. Hey now

[Newest Reality]

31. Ha!

So you are in on it! A bovine conspirator, ey?

[Codeine]

16. "You steal our children's milk, gorge on our hacked-up flesh,

parade around wrapped in our skins while smelling of soap made from our rendered fat and you’re mad because we POOPED ON THE LAWN?!”

[Blue_true]

18. Tell the Judge in Devin Nunes' lawsuit that his cows have been found.

They are real and not even they like that bastard. One of them in Nunes' personal cow, just too embarrassed to own up to being associated with that asshole.

[canetoad]

20. Someone had to do it

&f=1

[Glimmer of Hope]

21. I would love this. Just like India!

[mopinko]

25. i hate to burst your bubble, but

i have been to india, and the way it was explained to me was more that cows are everyone's than that they were "sacred".
if you feed the cow, you are allowed to milk the cow.

and in 10 days, i only saw one cow.

[Marie Marie]

22. Isn't there a commercial about how California has the happiest cows?

Now we know why.

[House of Roberts]

23. The solution is...bottle rockets!

[jberryhill]

26. .

[Bayard]

29. That's pretty good

And terrifying at the same time!

I used to chase the neighbor's cattle in my front yard with a broom. It worked, at least for that day.

[MineralMan]

27. Feral Cattle. It happens.

They're out there. Cattle that have escaped from fenced pasture areas, or that have been turned loose by people who can't afford to keep them.

Interesting. Here's one story about them:

https://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-feral-bulls-20180302-story.html

[jberryhill]

32. These cattle are owned...

...by ranchers who pay to graze on adjoining state land.

The problem is that the fences are broken, in part by kids looking to enjoy the land as well.

In civilized places, gates are used to allow access for through-hikers and other land users.