psychoceramics: Cow at 30,000 feet

[Adam Sherk <a--@m--.com>]

This is appearantly a true story from a Japanese newspaper:

>        On Friday, March 14, the Japanese Coast Guard responded to an SOS
>call from a sinking ship in the middle of the Sea of Japan.  When the
>rescue effort arrived, they found the crew of a trawler clinging to the
>hull of their overturned ship.  After returning to land, each member of the
>crew and the officers were questioned about the events causing the
>accident, but after the interviews, the men were placed in confinment for
>suspicion of sabotage.  Every man claimed that their boat had been struck
>by a large cow that had fallen out of the cloudless sky, leading the
>authorities to suspect the story had been concocted to cover up foul play.
>        The men remained in confinement for a week until a call came in
>from the Russian Air Force, who had heard of the incident.  After the call,
>all of the men were released.  On the same day that the ship sank, a
>Russian cargo plane was preparing to take off from an airfield in far
>eastern Russia.  Before takeoff, the crew of the plane noticed a cow
>grazing beside the runway.  Hungry for the expensive meat, they dragged the
>cow into the cargo hold and took off, intending to have a feast at their
>destination.  Once in the air, the disoriented cow went berserk, thrashing
>and kicking at anything and anyone within reach.  Before the cow could do
>any serious damage, the crew opened the cargo hatch and pushed the cow out
>at 30,000 feet over the Sea of Japan.
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