Police officer [blah blah] found the four foot tall crudely crafted cow blocking the sidewalk near South [blah] street and [blah] about 1:45 am on July 15.
Police won't speculate wether the moosterious cow was the victim of an aborted cownapping or if they;re dealing with a case of udder abandonment.
Police spoksperson [blah] said police couldn't find the cow's owner and nobody has filed a missing heifer report.
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They say they'll hold the cow for the required 90 days. After that, they may have to destroy it.
Some speculated the cow may actually be [blah]'s favorite fake cow Plucky, a popular life-size Hereford steer statue that has welcomed customers into the front door of Frank and Guy's meat market for more than 25 years.
But [blah], part owner of Frank and Guy's, said residents need not worry. Plucky is doing fine.
However, [blah] ssid his union wrote him a letter recently warning him to bring Plucky inside when he closes his Hillside Plaza store each night.
Apparently, animal rights activists are suspected of vandalizing local meat shops and union leaders worry that Plucky might be next.
[Blah] said he takes no chances when it comes to Plucky's safety.
"We bring him in every night. I don't think he's last a night out there. Somebody would take him," [blah] said.
After al, Plucky has been cownapped before.
In 1980, graduating seniors plucked plucky from in front of Frank and Guy's - then located in the [blah] shopping center - and hoofed it over to [blah] high school where they hoisted the steer to the gym roof.
School administrators returned Plucky right away, but he suffered a minor injury to his hollow hard-plastic body.
A wisp of rope replaces the tail that the seniors accidentally tore off.
[Blah] said Plucky is more than a mascot, he's a fixture. And Frank and Guy's enjoys milking Pucky's popularity.
"Tourists take pictures of him out there. little kids ride on him ... I've seen dogs go nuts over him. They'll bark their heads off out their windows at Pucky," [blah] said.
Thanks to Pucky, shoppers had little trouble finding the store when it moved from the center in 1995. They looked for Pucky, not the store's neon sign.
[Blah] wonders why the owners of the bogus bovine have not stepped forward.
"I would have called everybody if it was my cow that was missing," he said.
Meanwhile, the clumsy-looking cow sits alone in the foyer of the police department's evidence room waiting to be taken home. It looks as if it could belong in a kindergarden classroom or an elementary-school art show.
The cow is not branded, but its ear is tagged with a police evidence ticket that reads "unknown owner."
The cow's body is crafted from a long, round cardboard barrel. Its wooden legs are actually a sawhorse {Note - actually they are NOT a sawhorse :)} and its head is comprised of two boxed stacked on top of one another.
The entire cow is covered in white butched paper with black spray-painted
spots. A flimsy rubber glove serves as an udder and the cow's creator used
an old electrical cord {Note - air hose :)}and a shop rag for a tail.