The Aurora, CO police reported that someone, on horseback, had herded 56 head of prime back/white first calf heifers into an area in the middle of the night. When law enforcement arrived, the heifers were gone, supposedly loaded into a cattle truck and thought to be headed to Kansas. Law enforcement is calling this a felon due to the cost of these heifers. Thing is, all the heifers have a brand on each side of them.
Actually, it's not a funny thing when the owner of these cattle have them stolen. I really sympathize with the guy. My wife just asked me "Why are they making jokes about this man having his cattle stolen?" I have to agree with her.
I must remember to apologize to your wife next time I see her. LOL And of course, it is theft, grand larceny.
@Cody Fousnaugh Here's my "slant" on why the jokes are made: average person, especially city-dweller, just has no experience with the business of cattle-raising, the difficulties encountered in everyday work, fighting disease and predators, so, theft of cows is an extremely serious thing to the cattle-raiser, and seems rather odd and therefore funny to people like, well.....like me. But, I'm not laughing. Frank
They were just jokes @Cody Fousnaugh ....just like people joke when a truck full of something like beer or whatever spills in contents on the road. Not funny to the company and the driver but people joke about it.
Why do people laugh at anything? Nearly all comedy is based on the misfortunes of others. Slap stick in particular made Lucille Ball and The Three Stooges famous and I’ll bet a dollar to a doughnut that you and she have laughed at their antics. Kids falling off a swing set or people passing out at their wedding isn’t funny but there are TV shows which have made a gazillion dollars filming such things because yup, people laugh at them. Matter of fact, people send in those videos because they want people to laugh at them even though at the time of filming, it wasn’t funny. It’s a given that cattle rustling in real life isn’t really funny when one takes on the full impact that someone is really being hurt but it doesn’t stop the imaginary visuals that pop up due to some comedy westerns whereby the cattle rustling scene is meant to tickle the heart. Compassion for others and having the ability to sympathize with another person’s travails are part of being human but so is the ability to find some humor in a bad situation.
And why should she? She has you to reply for her. Her views are on here and on SF...just through you.
Slightly off topic but was thinking about it @Cody Fousnaugh ... Why do they even still Brand cattle? That must hurt, there must be better ways by now to identify them. And these were branded on both sides???
She says, "I have better things to do." I could have to, but I happen to enjoy forums, whether it's a boating one or medical one.
Yes, but she still takes the time to listen to you read a post or reads it herself....being a member isn't that different. Not everyone posts every day either...
Identification. The ear can be tagged as well. To many city people, what is done with livestock on a ranch or farm can/is considered hurting them. But, those same people can sure like to buy steaks at local grocery store or restaurants. There are things done to young cattle, like "doctoring", where the young calves have to be roped and inoculated for diseases, or a "squeeze chute", which is used for larger cattle for "doctoring", etc. Heck, we'd put metal rings in our young hogs so they wouldn't root (dig) a ditch down the area.