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http://news.iafrica.com/sa/2382641.htm

Twenty-five cows stolen from Elandsfontein were found dead with their legs cut off in Lawley, south of Johannesburg, police said on Wednesday.

Captain Mbulaheni Netshivhodza said the cows were part of a herd of 90 stolen on Tuesday night.

He said the owner of the cows was alerted to the crime by an anonymous caller on Tuesday night and told to look for his stock in Lawley.

Netshivhodza said the owner and his workers found 33 cows alive some distance before reaching Lawley.

He said when the group arrived in Lawley they found 25 more cows, but these had been killed and their legs cut off.

More cows were found nearby and eight were still missing.

Netshivhodza said a case of stock theft had been opened and no arrests had been made.
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Seriously:mad::wtf::mad:
 
25 legless cows found
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What had they been drinking? :D


no, but seriously... that is just gross. What kind of demented deranged d00$ would do something like this?
 
Garyvdh said:
What had they been drinking? :D


no, but seriously... that is just gross. What kind of demented deranged d00$ would do something like this?
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Hulle was been af oor die bull:D

Wasted food. :( Poor owner that is big money lost.
 
Garyvdh said:
What had they been drinking? :D


no, but seriously... that is just gross. What kind of demented deranged d00$ would do something like this?
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Sangoma?

Evidently somebody wasn't happy with the size of his penis and needed some muti :erm:
 
Been happening for ages, they chase stolen cattle to a safe place, chop their shin muscles so they can't run, then cut out the best meat while the animal is bleeding to death........barbaric...but this is Africa......
 
The farm invaders in Zim did this to the livestock on the farms they took over. They'd cut meat from the animals while still alive to try and keep the rest "fresh" for so long as possible.
:edit Yes and what HammerDown said.

I know a lady who went to Zim to sneak onto farms and help kill animals mercifully. The stories she can tell is so horrific its not even funny.
 
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African logic. Steal 25 sets of legs instead of simply killing 3 cows for better quality meat. In the time they hacked off 25 legs they could've cut up two or three cows entirely. Major fail.
 
Shows the stupidity of the lot. They thought the song was "Kill the moo's" .....
 
Legless cows were worth R200 000
April 29 2010 at 08:35AM
By Alex Campbell

Twenty-five stolen cattle were found with their legs slashed, unable to walk and needing to be euthanised, 25km from their farm south of Joburg.

The cows were lying in tall grass in Lawley, near Lenasia, police said.

They had panga-style gashes above their knees, said Colonel Johan Scott, provincial co-ordinator for stock theft policing. Five of them were calves.

The 25 crippled cows and 65 others were reported stolen to the police early yesterday. Fifty-seven of the cows were retrieved unscathed and eight are still missing.

Jaco Taute, who owns the cattle, watched as workers dragged the crippled stock onto an Isuzu pickup truck so that they could be taken to be slaughtered. One bull tried to run away but was reduced to crawling on its knees.

"This is plain cruelty," said Taute, who runs a farm in Elandsfontein called Aeterno Investments. He said he now wondered whether he should continue running his farm, which his father bought 20 years ago.

"The suffering these cows must go through - it's not worth it." The mutilated cattle were worth R200 000.

Police and farmers said this was part of a spate of stock theft, allegedly by Lesotho nationals who live in squatter camps in Lenasia and Lawley.

Lesotho was identified in December as a hotspot for stock theft in southern Africa.

"They cut (the cows) into portions and then they sell the meat to squatter camp dwellers," said Warrant Officer Seremi Sello, who is with the Stock Theft Unit based in Vereeniging.

There have been around 15 cases of theft in Gauteng in the two years since the Stock Theft Unit began, Sello added.

Farmer Sarel Cilliers, 41, said he had to close down his 362-hectare farm in Jachfontein after losing nearly R1 million in cattle and about 160 sheep to stock theft during the past year.

Thefts happened almost every week, Cilliers said. He had bought electric fences and lights to keep the thieves away.

"Nothing helped. Nothing."

Cilliers plans to continue living on the farm, but will operate an electrical business instead of farming.

Police are offering a R50 000 reward for any information leading to arrests. Witnesses can call 071 603 9032.
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20100429043803288C157712
 
People willing to attack humans with a panga are certainly not going to care about animals suffering.

I don't get why though. The article said they were dead, so the meat preservation theory doesn't fly. Its like the burning down libraries thing....mindless destruction of value.

BrandonH said:
Hopefully he insured against theft.
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Is that even possible anymore with all the stock theft going on?
 
Jayzuz , thought for a minute this was a story about my ex and her mates on Friday afternoon at Turtle Creek ;)
 
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