Holy Cow!

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Holy Cow!


Earlier this year, the dazed crew of a Japanese Trawler were
recovered off the Sea of Japan clinging to the wreckage of their 
ship. Their rescue, however, was followed by immediate imprisonment 
once authorities questioned the sailors on their ship's loss. They
claimed that a cow, falling out of the clear blue sky, had struck 
the trawler amidships, shattering it's hull and sinking the vessel 
within minutes.

They remained in prison for several weeks, until the Russian Air
Force reluctantly informed Japanese authorities that the crew of one 
of its cargo planes had apparently stolen a cow wandering at the 
edge of a Siberian airfield.  They forced the cow into the plane's 
hold and hastily departed for home.  Unprepared for live cargo, the 
Russian crew was ill-equipped to manage a rampaging cow within 
its hold. To save the aircraft and themselves, they shoved the animal 
out of the cargo hold as they crossed the Sea of Japan at an 
altitude of 30,000 feet.

Once again, fact is stranger than fiction...  (Just don't tell PETA!)


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