When cows attack, TX version
http://blogs.houston..._sues_ov.php#more "Chicago to my mind was the only place to be. ... I above all liked the city because it was filled with people all a-bustle, and the clatter of hooves and carriages, and with delivery wagons and drays and peddlers and the boom and clank of freight trains. And when those black clouds came sailing in from the west, pouring thunderstorms upon us so that you couldn't hear the cries or curses of humankind, I liked that best of all. Chicago could stand up to the worst God had to offer. I understood why it was built--a place for trade, of course, with railroads and ships and so on, but mostly to give all of us a magnitude of defiance that is not provided by one house on the plains. And the plains is where those storms come from." -- E.L. Doctorow |
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Times have changed it seems.
In the early 70's, a friend of mine was driving a VW back to Ohio from California. In one of those open stretches, a cow wandered out in front of her and she hit it, destroying her car, putting her in the hospital, and incidentally, killing the cow. When she finally got home, she found that the state (I don't remember which one) had sent her a bill for the cow. She told me the story about 30 years ago so the details elude me now.
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When cows attack, TX version
- (lincoln)
- (1)
- Sept. 9, 2011, 07:22:42 PM EDT
Times have changed it seems.
- (hnick)
- Sept. 10, 2011, 12:10:52 PM EDT