Cow with beef on lam in Queens!
Slaughterhouse bovine bolts for freedom
A RUNAWAY cow caused quite a stir in Queens Thursday, officials said.
The bolting bovine, destined to become dinner, was spotted near Merrick Blvd. and Jamaica Ave. in Jamaica about 12:15 p.m. after escaping from a slaughterhouse, officials said.
The fugitive farm animal roamed the streets for almost an hour before it was ultimately cornered and corralled by police at a parking garage about a block away.
“He was running for his life,” garage employee Charmaine Harris Johnson told the Daily News. “It was scary. He was running all around the garage.”
The hot-hooved escapee was held at bay until a cattle truck brought the animal back to Archer Halal Live Poultry, from where it had escaped. Witnesses couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
“I thought, holy cow!” said one 31-year-old onlooker. “I’ve been upstate, and I haven’t seen cows running in the street.”
Members of the animal rescue group PETA held a protest outside the slaughterhouse late Thursday, encouraging the owner to free the cow.
Meanwhile, the kind-hearted cops who corralled a goat that escaped from a nearby St. Albans slaughterhouse a day earlier found a new home for their four-legged friend. The cops ponied up $40 to buy the goat, and the animal is now roaming free at a Long Island petting zoo, officials said.