Unusual: 40 cows escaped from the slaughterhouse and there was a stampede in the middle of the street

The video captures a herd of cows stomping on a suburban Los Angeles street and in a front yard. (Video credit: Daisy Laureano)

Dozens of free-roaming cows flock to a neighborhood in California, in the United States, on Tuesday after escaping from a meat packing plant.

Shortly after 7:30 p.m. Pacific time in North America, authorities responded to a report on the herd galloping through the streets of Pico Rivera, south-east of Angels, when the county sheriff’s department was alerted to assist with the control of animals passing through downtown.

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Given the situation, residents were told to avoid the area as authorities attempted to capture the 40 cows that escaped from a local slaughterhouse when a door was accidentally left open, allowing them to exit onto the street and cross the residential sector.

At least seven vehicles arrived when officers They tried to keep the cows together while they waited for the department’s mounted police detachment to arrive with horse trailers.

A cow loaded four members of a family

Several videos captured the stampede as passers-by appeared to watch in disbelief. A clip showed a cow tumbling and crushing a person trying to retrieve one of the loose animals. Another cow pounced on family of four, knocking over some membersThe sheriff’s department said in a statement, after which the animal was shot.

Those affected, whom the authorities have not identified, they were taken to hospital and treated for minor injuries.

More than an hour after their escape, most of the cows were stuck in a cul-de-sac on Friendship Avenue, he reported. NBC Los Angeles. Of the remaining 39 cows, 38 were safely recovered.

The administrator of the city of Pico Rivera, Steve carmona, told KTLA that at one point he had to get into a car to get away from the herd. “It was a terrible experience“, He said.

“Of the forty animals, thirty-eight were safely captured, one was shot and another was not locatedThe department said.

Other incidents with wild animals

The Pico Rivera incident is reminiscent of other animal escapes that happened last year. In February, a herd of more than 65 cows escaped from a farm in northwest Indiana.

In September, an assistant from the Knox County Sheriff’s Office saw to a tiger wandering the roads of Tennessee. And in May 2020, a herd of almost 200 goats broke the planks of an electric fence and took to the streets of San Jose, California.

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