Man kills cows, self

[freakyfreaky]

Farmer in upstate New York shoots 51 of his dairy cows to death, then turns rifle on himself. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...012204899.html

NY dairy farmer kills 51 cows, commits suicide

The Associated Press
Friday, January 22, 2010; 10:54 PM



COPAKE, N.Y. -- State police in New York say an upstate dairy farmer shot and killed 51 of his milk cows in his barn before turning the rifle on himself.

State police found the body of 59-year-old Dean Pierson in his Copake barn on Thursday. A visitor found a note Pierson had left on the barn door that said not to come in and to call police.

State police would only say that Pierson was having personal issues.

The Columbia County hamlet of Copake is about 115 miles north of New York City.

Local farmers buried the cows outside the barn Friday. They would not discuss Pierson or what had happened, but one of the men said these are hard times to be a farmer.

[LadySilver]

Re: Man kills cows, self

See what living in Upstate NY does.....sad =( poor innocent cows.

[Federate]

Re: Man kills cows, self

I wonder if he had 52 bullets and had to headshot everyone including himself in order to complete the job.

[freakyfreaky]

Re: Man kills cows, self

Cow suicide, South Park style. http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/150843

Scientists baffled by cow suicides. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...itzerland.html



Suspected murderer of family members purportedly previously seen standing on chair preaching to field of cows. http://www.khou.com/home/Austin-Coun...-81935142.html

jmstanfill said on January 18, 2010 at 9:32 AM
The killer was walking around naked afterwards. A neighbor called the police. This lunatic used to take a chair to the cow pasture and stand on it to preach to the cows..

[Muhaha]

Re: Man kills cows, self

WHAT IF:

1. Farmer having sleep problems takes Ambien

2. "Wakes up" in the middle of the night sleep walking and kills all his cows without realizing what he's doing, sleep animal killing.

3. Wakes up in the morning and is baffled by what he sees.

4. Doesn't even try to find an explanation because all that counts is that his livelihood is finished. He's got no cows to sell, grow, and milk so he's in debt and without any source of future income.

5. Depression from the situation leads to suicide.



All because of Big Pharma.