Queens, NY – A wily steer turned the street of Queens into a wild west scene when he broke out of Halal slaughterhouse and had to be lassoed by cops.
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The fleet-footed hoofer made his break from Musa Halal Inc. on Beaver Road, dodging and darting through traffic in a desperate attempt not to become barbecue.
The bolting bovine charged up 109th Ave. in South Jamaica with cops and a butcher in hot pursuit.
Pedestrians and motorists did disbelief double takes, screaming and running as the rampaging livestock rambled through the asphalt jungle.
“I saw this cow running up the street with the police chasing him,” said retired bus company owner William Barksdale, 72, of Queens. “I knew the police would eventually win, but he had good spunk.”
The break-away beef cut up the driveway of Steven Khan’s house on 109th Ave., “We were chilling. I was coming back, taking out the garbage when I saw my friends running,” said Kahn, 20. “I’m like, ‘Why are you running?'”
Then Kahn saw the snorting steer busting throw his backyard gate.
“I ran in the house carrying garbage,” he said. “I’m not scared, but it’s a wild cow coming in my yard. It’s not the kind of thing you usually see in South Jamaica.”
Khan’s pal Imran Asif, 23, said he jump on the hood of parked truck to avoid being trampled by the stampeding beast. “When it passed by, I didn’t want it to break my knees and my knees caps,” Asif said.
Cops cornered the big brown, moo-moo in Kahn’s yard, shooting it with a tranquilizer gun and lassoing it with ropes.
A butcher from the slaughterhouse tried to help subdue the woozy steer but nearly got head butted.
Stumbling and struggling to not go back to the slaughterhouse, the animal rammed him head into a horse trailer bought to the scene.
At least a dozen cops were required to get the steer into the trailer, witnesses said.
“It was bugging,” barber Paul Echols, 23, said of the rawhide escapee. “I was worried. I’m not used to seeing stuff like that.”
he deserves to live a peaceful life now. Let him roam free
They should’ve called Bobov. They know how to stop cows.
Abi men hut tanus on the Bobovo in Monsey yesterday.
Now the escapee will soon be given the death penalty. Oh, he was on death row before the escape? What was his original crime, being a bovine? In the photo the bovine looks quite young. I guess most male bovines aren’t allowed to live so long?
Uh, guys? A cow ain’t a steer. We aren’t familiar with the word in English for this species. Cattle is plural. I believe the proper word is actually bovine. Anyway, a COW = female of the species, bull = male and a steer is something that is prohibited by Torah.
But what’s going on in NY? Have you been invaded by Chik-fil-a? All these cow, er bovine stories, weird.
What next, the “Devil cats” of Orange County attacking some farmer’s cows, er, bovines?
On it’s way to Monsey, no doubt.
maybe sombody wanted to shecht it like in monsey
Send it to Bobov for practice
So ironic, this coming right after the story in monsey.
This has been the ‘holy cow week’- dead or alive.
the bobov monsey cow had tchiyas hameisim .
Was it on its way to Chofetz Chaim?
it happend a few years ago also in queens wonder if it was the same place
kill the cows
kill the pigs
kill the raccons
@Anon 2: The gender-neutral term for a bovine animal is “ox”. A cow is a female ox, a bull is a male ox, and a steer is a neutered male ox. In common usage the word “ox” is generally used to refer to a steer used as a beast of burden (for plowing, etc.) but it technically refers to the whole species.
(There’s another word, “neat”, but this is archaic, only seen nowadays in “neat’s-foot-oil”, which was once a popular lubricant nad leather treatment.)
My question is, who wrote this article? The proofreader seems to have been asleep on the job. I’m used to seeing this sort of grammar in the comments, but not in the articles themselves…
(Oh. “New York Daily News”. That answers that question.)
Ah it was the halla guys in Monsey, I guess it wasn’t Bobov.
I am sure its a gilgal and did not want to get slaughter in a arabic shcita it was looking for a yidishe shecht hs the police should have taken it to vineland or empire
The Ribono Shel Olam sent us this story right after the Bobov shechita story as a lesson for all the self-hating Jews.
Where are all the protests about the “barbaric” halal slaughter of animals in Queens?! No, we only protest shechita in Monsey!!!
What in the world is a “hoofer” is this a new Yeshivesh word or just plain ignorance?
Dairy cows are sent to slaughter for beef when they are deemed no longer productive (after a grueling life in the dairy industry). Male calves in the dairy industry are sent to slaughter for veal.
A good lesson in animal smarts. The Bobov cow willingly went to the slaughter in Monsey and was no doubt moser nefesh for kavod Shabbos Kodesh, whereas the halal cow ran for his life. We think thery’re dumb animals, but they know, they really know.
Good news for the cow/ steer …whatever! Today’s NY Daily News reports that it’s life will be spared and it is now under the care of animal control and they are trying to find it a home …probably at some farm upstate NY.
Bulls are fully grown males of the species. They are used in this country in limited use for reproduction purposes. Baby males are either castrated and raised for milk fed veal, castrated and raised for about eighteen months for the beef you eat or slaughtered shortly after birth for bob-veal. (Us Yidden don’t castrate them but we sure do eat them)
Cows are females used for milk production, and then sent for slaughter when they can no longer keep up with production quotas. Since they have lean meat, their carcasses are used for ground beef and for hot dogs and salamis.
Bovine is a more formal and somewhat antiquated word for the species.