Saturday 22 October 2011

Cow attack fail

Spotted by Pavolv's Cat at the BBC:

Two cows have been killed in a crash with a lorry on a main road in Cumbria.

Emergency services were called to the A6 at Plumpton, near Penrith, shortly before 21:00 BST on Friday. The accident involved three animals and two of them died at the scene. The lorry driver was unhurt. The road was blocked while the animals were removed. Cumbria Police said they were investigating how the animals got on to the road.


If you're going to do cars, the best technique appears to be the encouraging a driver to swerve into oncoming traffic. And if you're willing to sacrifice yourself, then why not try derailing a train? See here and even if the train doesn't hit you it causes massive delays while you are carrying out the recce

4 comments:

Pavlov's Cat said...

If you're going to do cars, the best technique appears to be the encouraging a driver to swerve into oncoming traffic.

If you are a cow yes, maybe a lower centre of gravity? deer and elk seem to take out drivers no problem as they tend to pitch through the windscreen when struck.

I believe Volvo's actually have an Elk / Reindeer test that swings the equivalent weight at the windscreen to see if they can withstand such a suicide attack

Mark Wadsworth said...

PS, good point about flying though windscreens, a kangaroo achieved a similar feat a couple of years ago.

Robin Smith said...

Thanks ill go and pick up the carrion. Have been living on biscuits for the past 5 days.

James Higham said...

Yep, they took on just a little too much with a lorry but the idea of tag team sounds promising.