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[wellinghall]

Three people have been hurt when their car collided with a water buffalo.

In Cumbria.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/6977367.stm

Comments

[hmmm-tea.livejournal.com]

Police said the privately owned buffalo, known locally as William Shakespeare, died at the scene.

Is this as opposed to all those wild buffalo's you find in Cumbria?

Or a publically owned one?

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the Beatrix Potter Trust also keeps a small herd.

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

A dead buffalo, injured people and written-off cars. Amusing? (I see where you were coming from but...)

By the way, we have kangaroos near here complete with a triangular red and white roadsign with a kangaroo :D

[malaheed.livejournal.com]

I know it has been a long, wet summer but water buffalo in Cumbria is just a little much!

[intertext.livejournal.com]

I, of course, live in a country where something like 1% of all traffic accidents involve a moose :)

But no water buffalos.

[wryelle.livejournal.com]

*snort*

Apart from feeling very sorry for the poor buffalo.

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

What, are you still around? Shouldn't you be in labour by now? ;-)

[wryelle.livejournal.com]

Pah! What makes you think if I was in labour I wouldn't be LJing it :P

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

Water buffalo farms not that unusual surely. Where do you think mozzarella comes from?

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Unusual in Cumbria though (being a place more conducive to sheep farming for a start)? - most mozzarella made outside Italy is made from cows' milk, although that may be changing (I'm seeing more Buffalo Mozzarella in non-Italian packaging than before).

[philmophlegm.livejournal.com]

There's a buffalo farm near us. They sell their buffalo mozzarella at Tavistock Farmers' Market every so often.

[emperor]

Around 3000 in the UK (buffalo, not farms)