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October 09, 2003

Hamburger Anyone?
I'm not sure precisely what, but there's something strangely poetic lurking in this story:

REDDICK, Fla. — Florida, the lightning capital of the nation, lived up to its reputation when 20 prized, pregnant cows were killed by a bolt that hit an oak tree they were huddled under at a north Florida farm, police said. Two others were euthanized.

"The hole in the tree was the size of a watermelon," said Rose Mary Cameron of Clover Leaf Farm. "The ones that were under the tree did not move. They just fell over each other. They were all tangled up."

She said two others appeared brain dead, "so the manager put them down."

Paul Resler of the National Lightning Protection Corp. in Denver said trees are the worst place to seek shelter in case of lightning.

"Of course we as humans know that, but the cows do not know that," Resler said.

I also nominate Paul Resler as this year's reigning Master of the Obvious.

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