Run Innocent Moo-Cows. Run For Your Lives.

In one of the more odd recession-related stories of the year, a farmer-turned-maniac murdered 51 cows in his Copake, NY farm before killing himself.

Story from AP (Courtesy of Yahoo! News):

COPAKE, N.Y. – State police in New York say an upstate dairy farmer shot and killed 51 of his milk cows in his barn before turning the rifle on himself.

Local farmers buried the cows outside the barn Friday. They would not discuss Pierson or what had happened, but one of the men said these are hard times to be a farmer.

I feel like a bad person because I laughed when I saw this.  Like these aren’t hard times to be any other occupation?  I just can’t imagine cows being the  real target of someone’s frustrations.  Where they not producing enough milk?  Did the farmer simply think they’d become more profitable as hamburgers, only to realize that his cows weren’t good enough for Grade A certification?  What the hell!  THEY’RE COWS.  I mean, I’m glad it’s not people, but Jesus.