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| Reports: Cow crashes through roof, kills sleeping Brazilian | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Jul 16 2013, 08:16 AM (83 Views) | |
| douggoss | Jul 16 2013, 08:16 AM Post #1 |
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By Henry Austin, NBC News contributor A Brazilian man has died after a 3000-pound cow crashed through the roof of his house and crushed him, according to local reports. Joao Maria de Souza was sleeping with his wife when the animal plunged through the corrugated asbestos shelter of his home in Caratinga in south-eastern Brazil. The cow is thought to have escaped from a nearby farm, before it clambered onto the home, which backs onto a steep hill. It then fell eight-feet onto de Souza's side of the bed, after the roof buckled under its weight, local media reported. His wife was unharmed. He was taken to hospital with a broken leg but the victim’s brother, Carlos Correa de Souza, 43, told Brazilian newspaper Hoje Em Dia that he later died from internal bleeding. The Civil Police of Caratinga in Vale do Rio Doce will open investigation into the circumstances of death, the paper added. “I didn't bring my son up to be killed by a falling cow," his mother Maria de Souza told Brazil's Super Canal TV channel. "He nearly died when he was two and got meningitis, but I worked hard to buy medicines for him and he survived. And now he's lying in his bed and gets crushed to death by a cow. There's no justice in the world.” |
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| *TennesseeTuxedo | Jul 16 2013, 09:04 AM Post #2 |
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That cow that jumped over the moon had to land somewhere. |
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| Student Radical | Jul 16 2013, 04:49 PM Post #3 |
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Not to question the report, but I grew up on a dairy farm, farmers on both sides of my family. The largest cow I've ever seen weighed 2800 lbs, and it was at the UT experiment station. I had the largest angus bull around and he only weighed 2500. I question Brazil having 3000 lb cows |
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