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Police called after man butchers cow in his driveway

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BooGiMaN said:
I've never butchered an animal before but is cutting off the head normally the first thing you do for a large animal? Is that to bleed it out? I would have thought gutting it and skinning it would be first.
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You wouldn't want the thing to wake up would you?
 
JulesMaximus said:
What's good about it? It's a process that I don't care to witness nor do I want my wife and kid to have to see it either.

I know where meat comes from, I've been to a slaughterhouse before, but slaughtering animals in your driveway is not a practice I'm going to defend.
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I guess living in CA has pussified you and your family. You don't have to watch it, if you don't want to. You do know you have that right, maybe one of the few you CA folks do have.

I find this story hilarious, and while the only thing I can see where this guy could get in trouble for is if he did in fact shoot the damn thing inside the city limits. All the other potential charges mentioned in the article such as the disorderly conduct charges are bullshit.
 
I grew up in Minneapolis. When I was a kid, during hunting season, it was pretty common to butcher your game in the garage with the door open.

One Thanksgiving, my Dad brought home a live Turkey. The previous weekend he's just finished white washing the basement. He tied it's legs to the rafters with all of us kids watching the process. He cut off it's head and let go of the neck.

Yep, the walls and all us kids looked pretty much like we'd been visited by Jason in Friday the Thirteenth. Our mother was NOT impressed and that's the last time we had a live Turkey.
 
BlahBlahYouToo said:
kids see a lot worse shit on tv and movies these days.
get over it.
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It's amazing how much parents shelter their kids nowadays.

So, killing a cow in front of a kid is now disorderly conduct? It wasn't long ago, kids would help kill the cow. Hell, I grew up with kids who's "chore" was to kill chickens.
 
Pulsar said:
You are truly hilarious. Do you have children?

Let me give you a hint. Children don't get upset over this sort of thing unless they are TAUGHT to get upset.... by well meaning over-zealous parents.

It's much like sex. Boys don't turn 12 years old and become allergic to the sight of female breasts. Likewise, the sight of a naked female body won't send a kid into a fit of horny rage where he screws everything in sight.

My parents were up in arms when I let my 6, 8, and 10 year old watch 9/11 videos. They similarly didn't like it when we took the kids to funerals.

It's the same damn mentality at work here. Kids don't NEED to be protected from these things. They need to be shown. Explain it to them. If you feel the need to hide it from them, you better believe they're going to pick up on it. That repression shows up later in life in all sorts of ways.

It's like the United States and our idiotic fascination with alcohol. Why does it suddenly become 'ok' at 21? Idiotic.

You keep acting like kids are small breakable packages that can't see the slaughter of cows. Mine's already slaughtered his own dear at 10, knows how to shoot rifles, thinks breastfeeding is an absolutely awesome thing, doesn't get embarrased when he sees me or my wife naked, and has tasted alcohol and declared it 'nasty'.

I can't wait to see your precious over-protected baby in 15 years.
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Finally, some sanity.
 
CPA said:
It's amazing how much parents shelter their kids nowadays.

So, killing a cow in front of a kid is now disorderly conduct? It wasn't long ago, kids would help kill the cow. Hell, I grew up with kids who's "chore" was to kill chickens.
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Yeah, saying that kids see "worse" is completely missing the point. Seeing a dead animal is not bad at all...
 
DrPizza said:
I used to regularly slaughter deer in my driveway when I lived in the city. Where else was I going to do it? In my living room??


I disagree with you. Once upon a time, virtually all children in the country grew up and at one point or another, actually participated in "where there food comes from" - often something simple in the form of chopping the chicken's or turkey's head off and helping to pluck feathers. Just because most of society gradually has moved away from that stage of preparing their food does not give them any right to be completely insulated from the reality of where their food comes from.

i.e. at one point, close to 100% of families butchered their own meat.
Your claim is that now that the percentage is closer to zero, that gives those who aren't willing to go to through the extra work the right to tell others that they can't either.
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So you trapped deer in the woods, hauled it home and shot the deer in your driveway? Is that what you mean by slaughtering?
 
Pulsar said:
You are truly hilarious. Do you have children?

Let me give you a hint. Children don't get upset over this sort of thing unless they are TAUGHT to get upset.... by well meaning over-zealous parents.

It's much like sex. Boys don't turn 12 years old and become allergic to the sight of female breasts. Likewise, the sight of a naked female body won't send a kid into a fit of horny rage where he screws everything in sight.

My parents were up in arms when I let my 6, 8, and 10 year old watch 9/11 videos. They similarly didn't like it when we took the kids to funerals.
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It's the same damn mentality at work here. Kids don't NEED to be protected from these things. They need to be shown. Explain it to them. If you feel the need to hide it from them, you better believe they're going to pick up on it. That repression shows up later in life in all sorts of ways.

It's like the United States and our idiotic fascination with alcohol. Why does it suddenly become 'ok' at 21? Idiotic.

You keep acting like kids are small breakable packages that can't see the slaughter of cows. Mine's already slaughtered his own dear at 10, knows how to shoot rifles, thinks breastfeeding is an absolutely awesome thing, doesn't get embarrased when he sees me or my wife naked, and has tasted alcohol and declared it 'nasty'

I can't wait to see your precious over-protected baby in 15 years.
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Arent you special! I guess we didnt want to raise our kids like hillbillies. Oh fyi my oldest daughter is 18 and seriously considering joining the marines she takes the asvab in dec and is one heck of a marksman with my baretta 92-F. My other daughter is 16 and taking 101 classes on top of her hs classes, and my 13 year old son is working on his tkd black belt test. My kids are awesome

kids do get upset over seeing an farm animal getting killed. Your kids are just too scared of you to express their emotional distress.
 
I dont really see anything wrong with this. All the sheltered city folk getting upset over thier neighbor butchering a cow, while they were all probably grilling up burgers and steaks over the holiday weekend.

By the way not all houses have garages, and your not going to be butchering a cow in your kitchen. The neighbors should have brought thier kids over and asked if they could help out. Would have been a great learning experience for the kids, and probably could have gotten some free steaks out of it.
 
OutHouse said:
Arent you special! I guess we didnt want to raise our kids like hillbillies. Oh fyi my oldest daughter is 18 and seriously considering joining the marines she takes the asvab in dec and is one heck of a marksman with my baretta 92-F. My other daughter is 16 and taking 101 classes on top of her hs classes, and my 13 year old son is working on his tkd black belt test. My kids are awesome

kids do get upset over seeing an farm animal getting killed. Your kids are just too scared of you to express their emotional distress.
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OR...both you could stop wagging your e-peen around for a second and realize that maybe both of you are raising your kids as you see fit as parents and that neither one of you is wrong or right. Both your sets of kids seem to be well adjusted even with differing life experiences.
 
why would someone want to butcher their own cow, that would seem like an insane amount of work to dismantle an animal that size in one sitting before it spoiled. and who has a refrigerator that would hold an entire cow. is it significantly cheaper to buy a live cow than to buy meat at a store?
 
OBLAMA2009 said:
why would someone want to butcher their own cow, that would seem like an insane amount of work to dismantle an animal that size in one sitting before it spoiled. and who has a refrigerator that would hold an entire cow. is it significantly cheaper to buy a live cow than to buy meat at a store?
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The short answer is yes, you can save a significant amount of money buying an entire cow and butchering it yourself. All you need is a decent sized chest freezer, and an entire cow will give you enough steaks and ground meat to easily last you 6months - year, all for probably around an average price of $2-3 a pound.
 
OBLAMA2009 said:
why would someone want to butcher their own cow, that would seem like an insane amount of work to dismantle an animal that size in one sitting before it spoiled. and who has a refrigerator that would hold an entire cow. is it significantly cheaper to buy a live cow than to buy meat at a store?
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Just get a nice chainsaw. That should give the neigborhood kids nightmares for months to come as blood flies a half-block in every direction.

And yes, it's alot cheaper to buy beef by the whole cow.
 
the problems here are:
1. shooting in a dense urban area without necessity to do so (i.e. self-defense)
this also illegal and common sense
2. slaughtering an animal in your yard, causing lots of public health problems such as:
* huge mass of shitty flies with diseases coming in from the whole city where they eat mostly cadavers and shit. They're going to land on your food next thanks to the neighbour who attracted them
* huge smell caused by spilled blood that rots
 
Pulsar said:
We were driving through mid-Michigan when we hit a deer. We took it to the local police station (at 4 am), like you are supposed to, and they accused us of poaching it. Logic and the police evidently were not well acquainted that night.

They held us at the police station until they found the tire marks on the freeway, then told us we couldn't take the deer whole.

We butchered it on their front lawn at 5 am using knives, a styrofoam cooler, and ice we purchased at the local 24hr Meijer.

They refused to let us use their facilities to wash up and relieve ourselfs, threatening my girlfriend with arrest when she threatened to pee on their wall.

We left the remains strewn across their front lawn. F'kers.
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the damage to your car wasent enough proof?
 
The guy could have at least taken it to the back yard.

One year my sister pulls into the driveway, hitting the button to open the garage door, only to see a big deer hanging from the rafters in her parking spot. Doh! Yep, I'm better her husband slept on the couch that night.

"Beef Slaughtering From Ask The Meatman" Watch it,but be warned, it starts with a mooing cow and pulls no punches. I don't bring it up for pleasure, or to turn you into a vegan, but to understand and appreciate what it takes to put that nice steak on your plate.
 
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FallenHero said:
OR...both you could stop wagging your e-peen around for a second and realize that maybe both of you are raising your kids as you see fit as parents and that neither one of you is wrong or right. Both your sets of kids seem to be well adjusted even with differing life experiences.
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:thumbsup:
 
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