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From: Geoff@vuepoint.demon.co.uk (Geoff Percival)
Subject: The Bombay Cow
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 23:23:01 +0000

I culled the following story from last Saturday's edition of the Guardian. Anyone else heard it or have more details?

"A friend of a friend met, through work, a Russian whose life had nearly been ruined in a peculiar accident.

The fellow, a fisherman, was plying his trade in the middle of the Caspian Sea one beautiful calm day. The waves gently lapped the side of the boat and the fisher was hauling in his writhing nets, when a cow suddenly appeared in the sky from nowhere, smashing right through the middle of his boat and sinking it in a trice.

Clinging to the wreckage, the trawlerman was at the end of his tether. His livelihood had sunk in one fell swoop of a phantom Friesian. Who would believe such a thing? Certainly not the insurance company, that was for sure.

Rescued and back on dry land, his suspicions were confirmed. The underwriters laughed out loud, hten sent him packing with a flea in his ear and a squelch in his shoes.

This bizarre story soon became the talk of the Urals, and came to international attention. It was only then that the sheepish American embassy in Moscow came clean. They accepted ful responsibility, furnished the fellow with a brand new fishing smack and revealed the curious circumstances surrounding the incident.

Apparently, a USAF transport plane was on a famine relief mission when one of the heifers on board went berserk at 3,000 feet, knocking a squaddy unconscious and dribbling on an officer's trousers. In their apoplexy, the soldiers decided the dumb animal had to take a dive. So they opened the cargo door and gave the poor cow the heave-ho out into the wide blue yonder. Without a parachute"

Well - it's possible - but I have my doubts. Anybody heard it before or have further information?


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