The first incident.
After about 45 minutes, a little 2 door honda hatchback (prelude maybe?) is sitting at the light looking at the cow, and he turns into the parking lot closest to where the cow is sitting. The guy gets out (just so you know, he is asian and looks to be about 35-40 yrs old), walks over to the cow, and just kind of walks around it checking it out. Eventually, he takes a closer look at the head, looks underneath it, and then walks around to the side. He looks down and notices the udders. He walks to the back, lifts up the tail and looks under it. By this time we are laughing so hard it's getting difficult to watch him :). He stands back up and sort of pets the cow before leaning over and giving the cow a hug!! Now, there is either something wrong with this dude or he REALLY likes cows (real or cardboard).

Our friend walks back to his car (we think he's given up) - except he does something very strange - he pops the hatchback open.

Back to the cow, the little guy wraps his arms around our cow and picks it up, legs in the air! He wobbles back to his honda with the cow, sets it in the back, and drives out of the parking lot!! The poor kidnapped cow rides away in the honda with it's legs sticking out the back, head and tail hanging out the side of his car. We have gone cow unstealing (we don't steal it, we get it stolen) for the first time - and we have lost Tabatha.