How not to kill a cow

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Just posted because I like it, vaguely appropriate.

I'm sure there is one for Mental Health workers, they deserve all the support and respect we can give, buggered if I'd do their thankless and hazardous job.

The cop did ok, apparently he's an experienced hunter that has shot plenty of animals, pressure does funny things to you...

Whilst it's possible to roll up to a calm cow in the yards and drop it with a .22, I'd personally take a bigger calibre to deal with an agitated animal.

Holy moley! I was wondering how this yarn was going to go. Kidmac LOST HIS SHIT!!!!!!!! Good stuff.

Now I understand that it must be very hard for the police and other civil servants to be constantly judged by us armchair experts, but fuck it, who else polices the police? I am also glad we live in a country where most of our police and elected officials are the community heros and stalwarts they need to be. I am not however so naïve to think that they don't suffer from the same amount of dickheads, idiots and so forth as found in any other organisation.

I understand the original concern of Boaraxa regarding someone letting strip circa 10 rounds of .223 in a built up area. Lets be fair, even one round has the potential to end up somewhere undesirable, let alone while fired in the heat of the moment, under stress, professional or not. I seem to remember a certain courier driver finding out the hard way not too long ago. OP may of strayed from his original point with some remarks but that's what makes this forum interesting, lots of different views and people.

Of course all you guys bagging the fuck out of the OP, know for CERTAIN that the cop involved, was a highly trained urban ninja marksman who could simply mindfuck his corelocts into the cow with zero risk to anyone anywhere! Although I am glad it ended without harm, I can hear your screaming reactions had said cop managed to put a couple of strays into some elderly person, child or other helpless sod.

I can only hope, that the cow was dispatched in a safe manner, by a diligent, trained professional. Not in a hail of wild gunfire, by someone maybe with very little firearm experience, who was a little to excited by getting some trigger time. Who really knows? Maybe I am just getting cynical in my old age.

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Originally Posted by kidmac42

Few deep breaths? Yep done, thanks Tommy.
I must apologise for the outburst to the good buggers here( the majority).
Baggin the police when they have the public's saftey to ensure is just not cool or warranted.
Get a life borax and co.

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Discussion and review of situations like this are how we set standards for the future. Cops aren't gods and fuckup like the rest of us, but if we leave them to run riot without scrutiney you end up with a whole bunch of poorley monitered power hungry fuckheads like they have in the states. Some people view this as un unsafe use of a firearm, and some view it as necessery/justifiable force. Both are entitled to express this oppinion

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Originally Posted by hanse

I can only hope, that the cow was dispatched in a safe manner, by a diligent, trained professional. Not in a hail of wild gunfire, by someone maybe with very little firearm experience, who was a little to excited by getting some trigger time. Who really knows? Maybe I am just getting cynical in my old age.

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In the time it took you to post that, the Police officer involved had to make a decision to either let the animal continue to run through the streets, or stop it.

OK gents-was fine up to the totally inappropriate crack about ?me taking patients medications-have been privvy to two investigations recently after comments like this posted on social media.
the point i was illustrating was that MSM live on the concept that sensations sell news ratings &make profits -accuracy is a distant second
Secondly the life of a front line professional in the shit ponds of life -yep shit ponds cause 99.9%of the time youre meeting humans under the most adverse(shitty) circumstances be it of their own creation or otherwise is lonely and often completely destructive
Often the most professional and sensible decisions you make are gonna rankle someone present which invariably means a screaming trip to the syncophantic media ..etc etc etc...the health &disability commissioner ,the IPCA , NCNZ or god spare us all the local pot grower whose become a green party list MP.

thank you to those who posted in support of us in the mental health field -god knows we need it.

Savage 1 and kotuku you guys both have hard jobs but these are pussie vocations compared to res's job (things I like) now that would be a tough job. Mind you I would take 1 (or all actually) for the team and give it a go. I also live and work in dangerous employments, but res's, that's dangerous. Maybe we could get Toby an apprenticeship

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Originally Posted by Kscott

In the time it took you to post that, the Police officer involved had to make a decision to either let the animal continue to run through the streets, or stop it.

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Yeah mate, not doubting that, and not saying he didn't make the correct decision. Just hopefully getting the grey matter going in a few heads, that seem to think that everyone in a position of power is some superman who cant fuck stuff up. I'm not saying this guy fucked anything up, I just find it almost humorous that there is two so very opposite sides of the story, and my bet is nobody knows any more than anyone else. And certainly only knows what someone in a position of power wants us to know.

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Originally Posted by hanse

And certainly only knows what someone in a position of power wants us to know.

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Originally Posted by Gapped axe

Savage 1 and kotuku you guys both have hard jobs but these are pussie vocations compared to res's job (things I like) now that would be a tough job. Mind you I would take 1 (or all actually) for the team and give it a go.

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i wouldnt be in the job if Ididnt thinkI could live up to what I consider are ethical standards.Personally Ive paid a hefty price ,but ive worked through it.pity Nzs so called caring societ ycouldnt look upon mental illness a little more kindly ,but most today are too busy worrying about themselves to worry about others.
my combatants comments ill take with a grain of salt and consider that point laid to rest. thanks for the kind words anyhow

While I don't normally have any time for stuff, I think that particular article seemed to show the police in excellent light, which is pleasant for a change. The boys in the car videoing however, makes me think of the "I was just inside having some dots" guy!

having spent a little time pondering this discussion id venture two offer two final observations-
my opponent proclaimed he "knew some mental health nurses".......... well ive known "some arseholes" in my time ,but Im not a proctologist
If hindsight is such a wonderful thing..why arent dont we have eyes in our bumcheeks

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Originally Posted by kotuku

having spent a little time pondering this discussion id venture two offer two final observations-
my opponent proclaimed he "knew some mental health nurses".......... well ive known "some arseholes" in my time ,but Im not a proctologist
If hindsight is such a wonderful thing..why arent dont we have eyes in our bumcheeks

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Because we prefer to have foresight :)

If I was the cop I would have spear tackled that cow gutted it with my bare hands turned it into grand angus burgers on the street and shared them with everyone. But we cant all be as cool as me

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Originally Posted by Toby

If I was the cop I would have spear tackled that cow gutted it with my bare hands turned it into grand angus burgers on the street and shared them with everyone. But we cant all be as cool as me

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Toby that is by far the best post so far on this topic. Unfortunately I cant "Like" it as doing so may make your head explode.

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Originally Posted by Toby

If I was the cop I would have spear tackled that cow gutted it with my bare hands turned it into grand angus burgers on the street and shared them with everyone. But we cant all be as cool as me

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Bro we all no you'd of forgotten your knife:)

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Originally Posted by BRADS

Bro we all no you'd of forgotten your knife:)

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Hence the bare hands my nigga!!! I should get like a knife implant on my finger haha

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Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

Because we prefer to have foresight :)

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so do firearms but one doesnt see them verbally bashing the shit out of each other.:ORLY:

oh to sit on the fence and criticise they are usually in a no win situation from the start they are useless if they don't do anything they are useless if they do do something and I bet all the cop bashers are either cops themselves or right now applying to join up so they can show us all how it should be done

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Originally Posted by kotuku

having spent a little time pondering this discussion id venture two offer two final observations-
my opponent proclaimed he "knew some mental health nurses".......... well ive known "some arseholes" in my time ,but Im not a proctologist
If hindsight is such a wonderful thing..why arent dont we have eyes in our bumcheeks

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Know, not knew. I'd merely had enough of you leaping down people's throats. Maybe the meds comment was a bit misguided (boohoo) but only a mad prick uses that many full stops.

now if the fire brigade was called instead , we could have driven over the mad cow ... as for the hard jobs you all have , you know you want to be in the fire service , everyone loves the fire service .... even your girlfriends and wives , and I guess your boyfriends

hey I'm in fire, and not every one loves me, must be not so flash in the Rural Fire sector I guess, no Calendars here

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Originally Posted by stumpy

now if the fire brigade was called instead , we could have driven over the mad cow ... as for the hard jobs you all have , you know you want to be in the fire service , everyone loves the fire service .... even your girlfriends and wives , and I guess your boyfriends

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Haha you're dreaming, however I do wish that we could sleep during nightshift if nothing is happening or get paid to go running and keep fit, I have to do all of that before work starts.

Every firefighter wants to be a cop I reckon.

I would want to be the dog handler , ... never seems to do the mountain of paperwork that the beat cop does , runs down the offender , hands over to PC job done , play with dog ... now that's the life .... you also forgot that we clean and service our cars at work too , and I stripped all the craftsman doors from my house at work one Christmas ... was a hell of a job , lead paint everywhere,

ok so now youre the forum grammar policeman .you whinge like a bitch about my posts but less than a week ago you actually liked em .heres me thinking ambivalence is the domain of politicians -maybe im mistaken .as for your comments re my professional persona you dont know shit from clay mate, you wouldnt know me for a bar of soap so get over yourself
i was quite happy to leave the matter there but no youve got to come back shagnasty as ever.
those last comments were a generalisation but you took it personally ????sense of humour you so fondly espouse
others will get tired of this so Ill offer the olive branch big boy-lets just agree to disagree and leave it there .capiche?

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Originally Posted by kotuku

i was quite happy to leave the matter there

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You said that in this post already, but you just keep on going me old mate. I'm just putting you on the ignore list, as a few people have told me they already do with you. Ta ta

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Originally Posted by stumpy

I would want to be the dog handler , ... never seems to do the mountain of paperwork that the beat cop does , runs down the offender , hands over to PC job done , play with dog ... now that's the life .... you also forgot that we clean and service our cars at work too , and I stripped all the craftsman doors from my house at work one Christmas ... was a hell of a job , lead paint everywhere,

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Everyone wants to be a handler, probably the most competitive job in the Police. I'm putting serious thought into it but I don't have the time currently with young kids.

Geez the crap we'd get in for that kind of thing at work! Probably lose our jobs, seriously. To be honest there is no way we would have time for that anyway.

Dam it you are right about everyone liking the Fire Service. We get way cooler jobs to attend though.

we don't give out tickets or charge so what's not to love haha

then there are those in both camps

we get pictures of us carrying babies out of burning houses ........we cut injured people from car wrecks .... so you can arrest them ..... all the girls want the firemans calender .....

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Originally Posted by Toby

If I was the cop I would have spear tackled that cow gutted it with my bare hands turned it into grand angus burgers on the street and shared them with everyone. But we cant all be as cool as me

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You'd only have gutted it with your bare hands cause you forgot your fucking knife [emoji6]

Bugger. @BRADS beat me to the punchline

Don't mess with a cow without bullbars.Bitch nearly got me.
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even with bullbars they do a fair bit of damage.first day of owning the ute luckily i sorted insurance before leaving home and they happily covered it ahhaha. Attachment 40049Attachment 40050

Was going to post up a comment.........................but I think I will wait till the thread starts mentioning 1080..........:smash:

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Originally Posted by Boaraxa

white officer leaps from moooving car shoots unarmed black cow multiple times :P

well how much danger was the cow really ? in a 50k zone with plenty of cop cars to at the least aleart others something was up so guess you could rule out crashes so long as no1 was directly infront of it would more than likely not go out of its way to maul anyone ....it wasn't that long ago they used to run herds of them cattle down the main street !! the way it looks from the clip the real danger came from flying bullets not tits n hooves

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I purposely "like" buttoned your post, only to get the satisfaction of clicking the "unlike" button.

Tussock.............that's just plain old disrespectful......

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Originally Posted by Survy

I purposely "like" buttoned your post, only to get the satisfaction of clicking the "unlike" button.

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As I said in another post we do a couple of beefys each year its often a different guy that comes out and shoots them/quarters them the last to fellas have both commented on what a good place we have to shoot them as we have a high bank that runs along the back of the property & went on to say how they had been abused by other clients in the past for not shooting there cattle in a bad firing zone for fear of a stray bullet ending up somewhere it shouldn't & like the guy said its him who would get done if anything went wrong so when I saw the cop blazing away in town couldn't help but question it ...so you can like -unlike that as many times as you want why would I give a fuck !

OK wasn't going to say anything BUT I work in the Public service also and yes it's mostly thankless etc and sometimes I get criticized for doing my job in a way that people don't like. BUT that is how it is, lets all just get over it... The moment the Police are beyond criticism is a very dangerous day for Democracy. I am not criticizing his shooting skill (hell I'm no Carlos Hathcock) but from a purely safety point of view it would be interesting too see the Police risk analysis of the "Loose Cow" Vs 10 rounds of .223 in a built up area. Yes we don't know his shooting backdrop etc Just interested that's all.

I have put down/home killed 6 odd cows, bloody solid things. I have used 7.62x39, .303, 308 and 12ga. Nothing ever came out the other side of the head even 7.62 steel core!

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Originally Posted by Tahr

DOC must love it when something like this crops up on the internet.

I can imagine their smoko conversation as they browse the forum to see what sort of shit we are talking. "Good" they will say. "Lets slip on a few extra tons while the anti-1080 loonies are all distracted". :)

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