Cows on the Loose

At the fire department today it was pretty quiet for most of the day, but once the evening hit we got a car accident. It turned out to be pretty tame. No injuries, but it is was crazy to see a car on its side along Main Street. When we cleared we drove around Forrest Way. When we were coming down Olympia Ave I saw a bunch of cows.

I called the dispatch center and two WSU cops came. Between Chia and I and the WSU cops we spent an hour trying to herd the cows into a fenced area behind the Orton basketball court.

At one point we were following the cows, early on. They were on the backside of Rogers hall. They were getting surrounded. One cow stepped on a metal manhole cover. It moved making a loud noise. The cows turned and started to run. It was in my general direction. I went for high ground by jumping on a bench and I was making my way for a retaining wall. Chia was making fun of me for that.

Later we started to get them moving to a fenced area. But that wasn’t as easy as it sounded. We had them go past where we wanted them and they spread through out the magic forest. We had to run past them and get them turned around. Then we got them moving again. This time they went past the fenced area and headed towards the Stephenson Complex. I again had to run around them to get them moving back towards the fenced area.

At one point they were hanging out in the upper Gray parking lot behind the Complex. One cow was starring us down. The she looked to her left. Then she looked to her right. Soon a cow came down next to her on each side. It was like she called for back up. The cop jokingly pulled out his taser and yelled towards the cows “stop resisting”.

Finally we were getting them close to the fenced area when some students who worked for the vet school showed up to try to figure out who the cows belonged to. They asked for a description. We said they are black and white with a yellow tag in their ears. He said that pretty much describes all of them. I laughed and said I suppose that is like describing a suspect in Pullman as a 20-year-old white male.

Chia helping to herd the cows