{"id":2772,"date":"2007-09-19T09:39:28","date_gmt":"2007-09-19T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/09\/youve_got_to_moo_your_way_to_freedom.html"},"modified":"2007-09-19T09:39:28","modified_gmt":"2007-09-19T17:39:28","slug":"youve_got_to_mo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/09\/youve_got_to_mo.html","title":{"rendered":"You’ve Got To Moo Your Way To Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"

And here you thought you no longer needed those lasso skills now that you moved to the city<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A frightened white-and-brown bovine led a small army of cops and firefighters on a merry chase until they finally corralled it in a Briarwood yard about 11 p.m.<\/p>\n

Just where “Queenie” came from was unclear, but neighborhood residents said there are a number of halal butchers in the area who keep animals for slaughter according to Islamic law.<\/p>\n

Police said 911 calls began coming in shortly before 10 p.m. from people who spotted the animal hoofing it on Union Turnpike and later at a number of other locations.<\/p>\n

Dimitri Mitropoulous, 45, almost came hood to head with the critter.<\/p>\n

He was driving past Queens Hospital Center, near the parking lot, when “the darn thing just came out of nowhere. There must have been a little bit of grass in the lot and he was feeding.”<\/p>\n

Mitropoulous called 911 and got an operator who thought he was a prankster. “She asked me what color the cow was and I said, ‘Are you joking? It’s a cow in New York City.'”<\/p>\n

When it was finally determined there really was a four-legged fugitive — from somewhere — on the loose, cops began tracking Mitropoulous with a Global Positioning System device as he followed the cow.<\/p>\n

“We must have gone about 2 miles,” Mitropoulous said, “and it was running at a good pace for a while. I had to do 20 [mph] to keep up with it. I was driving right alongside. If I had a rope I would have grabbed him.”<\/p>\n

The chase ended when the cow turned into a yard next to a three-story building at 85-22 144th St., where it was trapped by more than a dozen radio cars and Fire Department vehicles.<\/p>\n

Scores of rubberneckers mounted light poles, and climbed on trucks and garden walls to watch as the pursuers closed in with lassos.<\/p>\n

But the cow was not cowed. Queenie bucked, kicked and mooed loudly as she was wrestled toward a waiting NYPD horse trailer.<\/p>\n

The tug-of-war clearly tickled a number of onlookers, who began chanting “Attica, Attica” — a reference to the violent suppression of a riot at the upstate prison — while others laughed.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Too soon to tell whether the if-you-can-pull-it-off-you-earned-it rule<\/a> is in effect.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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