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12 cows invade OAP’s garden
HAVE you herd the one about the 12 cows that invaded a pensioner’s garden?
They milked her vegetable patch dry! The hungry herd chomped its way through a dozen cabbages, six cauliflowers, Brussels sprouts and rows of beans.
June Hayes had just sat down with a cup of tea when the cattle entered her garden one by one.
As well as helping themselves to her vegetables, they plucked apples from the trees, kicked over plant pots and, inevitably, left several cow pats.
Neighbours heard the 86year-old’s cries for help and rushed over to trace the owner and get the cows on their way.
They had strayed from a nearby field but it still took the farmer a few hours to usher them back.
Mrs Hayes, who has lived in Radcliffe, near Manchester, for 66 years, said: ‘I was just sat there in my conservatory with a cup of tea when all of a sudden this cow walked by, then another, and then another one.
‘Then the whole herd descended on my garden, I think they smelt cabbages.’
The pensioner, pictured below, who used to work for her late husband’s bicycle shop, added: ‘They have eaten everything, including the apples off the trees and the cauliflowers.
‘We have had to laugh about it though.’
But her daughter Janet, 50, wants the farmer to put her mother’s garden back in order after the invasion on October 7.
‘My first concern is for Mum,’ the education consultant said. ‘It took her and two neighbours two hours to clean the paths alone.
‘The garden has been devastated. We know it’s not the farmer’s fault directly. But the cows are his responsibility.’
‘They’ve eaten everything’