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A cow waits in the median of US 131 after truck hauling cattle overturned in the southbound lanes of U.S, 131. (The Grand Rapids Press)

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State police troopers work to wrangle two of a dozen cows that were on the run after a truck carrying them overturned on south bound US 131 early Wednesday. (The Grand Rapids Press)

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Kent county animal control crews work to wrangle two of a dozen cows that were on the run after a truck carrying them overturned on south bound U.S. 131 early Wednesday. (The Grand Rapids Press)

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Michigan State Police work to get two cows wrangled along south bound U.S. 131 after a truck overturned Wednesday morning. (The Grand Rapids Press)

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A Kent County animal control worker tries to wrangle a cow that escaped from an overturned truck on southbound US 131 Wednesday. (The Grand Rapids Press)

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Fugitive cows cause at least one wreck

Bovine escapees hoofed it over highway guardrails

Updated: Thursday, 22 Jul 2010, 1:25 PM MDT
Published : Thursday, 22 Jul 2010, 1:23 PM MDT

    GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) - Police said 12 cows being driven to the slaughterhouse made a break for freedom when the truck that was transporting them overturned in West Michigan.

    Police said the bovine escapees hoofed it over highway guardrails, forced traffic detours and caused at least one accident. The 42-year-old truck driver suffered minor injuries in the accident in Kent County about 4 a.m. Wednesday.

    All but five of the fugitive cattle had been rounded up by Thursday morning. The animals from a farm in Farwell, Mich., had been destined to end their days at a slaughterhouse in Milwaukee, Wis.

    Michigan State Police Trooper Joe Young said when all the animals are captured they will be euthanized.

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    Information from: The Grand Rapids Press


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