Wednesday, September 16, 2009
A man who was menaced by a herd of cows while walking his dog had to take refuge by jumping into the River Thames and staying there for over an hour.
The man was walking along the towpath near Radcot in Oxfordshire on Tuesday evening when the cows began chasing him. In order to avoid their attentions, he jumped into the river.He stayed there for twenty minutes before phoning the police.
Authorities reacted quickly, putting a helicopter on standby in case he needed rescuing, and bringing in an officer experienced in cow-herding issues to talk him through the complex process of driving the cows away.
He was advised to walk slowly and sternly out of the river, waving his arms around and ideally holding a big stick.
He eventually managed to free himself from his watery prison, disperse the cows, and was able to meet police at a nearby hotel where they had been waiting for him.
http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?Cows_drive_man_into_river,_keep_him_there&in_article_id=738863&in_page_id=2
See also: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8259363.stm which includes a soundbie of PC Jude Miranda describing how he helped the man escape the cows.
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