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Tue Jul 16 01:34:36 1991
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 01:33:51 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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adimas (Athanassios A Dimas):
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ambar (Jean Marie Diaz):
From: clarinews@clarinet.com
Newsgroups: clari.news.law.investigation,clari.news.interest.animals
Subject: Herd of headless cows?
Keywords: legal investigations, legal, animals, human interest, restaurants,
selling
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 91 13:02:48 EDT
BRAINTREE, Mass. (UPI) -- Managers of the Hilltop Steak House are
baffled as to why anyone would cut the heads off the restaurant's
trademark herd of life-size fake cows but vow to replace them.
Vandals apparently used power saws to decapitate six of seven fiberglass
cows outside the restaurant this weekend and also made off with a calf,
cutting it off at the hoofs, police said. None of the missing heads or
the calf have been recovered, police said.
``Nobody has called up claiming responsibility, no radical
vegetarians,'' assistant manager Marion Burke said Monday. ``We have no
idea why anyone would do it. I think it's just a college prank.''
Another assistant manager, Robert Griffin, had a theory.
``They're great looking,'' he said. ``Somebody's probably mounted them
on the wall. To have a Hilltop cow probably means a lot to them. This
isn't just a piece of junk cow -- these are beautiful.''
Griffin suspects the Hilltop herd's heads were rustled by more than one
person.
``It would take at least a half-hour to cut the head off even one cow,''
he said.
Burke said the decapitation apparently took place sometime Saturday
night or early Sunday morning. The fiberglass slaughter was discovered
about 4 a.m. Sunday.
Burke said the resturant intends to replace the damaged bovines at a
cost of about $500 each.
Hilltop officials expressed concern about similar fiberglass herds it
has at its other restaurants in Saugus and Nashua, N.H.
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