# More Mundane Pointless stuff on Cattle **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 24, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550 "2010-05-24T08:50:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carol\_nistri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@carol\_nistri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carol_nistri)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/1 "2010-05-24T08:50:14Z")
Mutilations. This just happend guys,and its not predators.Nor is it scavengers. > **[FOX31 Denver](https://kdvr.com/)** > > Denver, Colorado news, weather, sports and more ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@LilyoftheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheField)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 9:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/2 "2010-05-24T09:44:37Z")
How was the rancher able to ascertain that there was a “powerful electromagnetic field coming from one of the cow’s carved-out head”??? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/3 "2010-05-24T10:27:52Z")
I want to know why the aliens are so wasteful. Like, it’s all very well to take out the eyes and some of the other vital organs, but why dump back to earth some perfectly good **scotch fillet** and **sirloin**? Shows you how intelligent our alien overlords are dunnit. 😛 **Carol** , get another schtick. This one is overdone. ---
**Author:** ![PlainJain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/5daacb/32.png) [@PlainJain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PlainJain)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 10:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/4 "2010-05-24T10:49:33Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > Mutilations. This just happend guys,and its not predators.Nor is it scavengers. > > [http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-alien-cows-txt,0,6523586.story](http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-alien-cows-txt,0,6523586.story) I agree with\*\* kam,\*\* you schtick is old. I don’t mind a debate but in your last thread people were literally begging you for your explanation of what was afoot. You offered not much more than “now you’re cooking”. I get it: You are confused. Please explain to us what is your theory and the purpose behind it. We will not fill in the gaps to your vague, nutcase theory. Come on **carol** , do a little due diligence. What do you think (in detail)? [sup]pretty please[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/5 "2010-05-24T11:26:45Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > Mutilations. This just happend guys,and its not predators.Nor is it scavengers. > > [http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-alien-cows-txt,0,6523586.story](http://www.kwgn.com/news/kdvr-alien-cows-txt,0,6523586.story) This is the exact same kind of thing that was discussed _to death_ [in your last thread.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=560113) If the “mutilations” weren’t done by , which is supported by the evidence and the facts and common sense, you need to explain what it was. Your explanation is already about nine pages overdue. ---
**Author:** ![carol\_nistri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/edb3f5/32.png) [@carol\_nistri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carol_nistri)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/6 "2010-05-24T12:36:28Z")
Now how the heck can I tell you whats what when no one can say whats what? What is it,you think maybe ive got the explanation and am just sitting on it? Its a subject I find very curious indeed.If you dont think it is I cant help that. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/7 "2010-05-24T12:40:31Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > Now how the heck can I tell you whats what when no one can say whats what? Because you’re the one who keeps saying “and its not predators.Nor is it scavengers,” even though those are the most sensible explanation. > [@](#): > > What is it,you think maybe ive got the explanation and am just sitting on it? You did that over and over again in the last thread. ---
**Author:** ![JohnnyMac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@JohnnyMac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnnyMac)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/8 "2010-05-24T13:48:51Z")
At least it’s “mutilations” and not “mutes” this time. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/9 "2010-05-24T13:52:32Z")
Herds of beef cattle are called “beeves.” ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/10 "2010-05-24T13:58:55Z")
So it’s beeve mutes now? ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/11 "2010-05-24T15:01:54Z")
> [@LilyoftheField](#): > > How was the rancher able to ascertain that there was a “powerful electromagnetic field coming from one of the cow’s carved-out head”??? > 😕 That’s why we drive pick ups. We’ve got to carry our Acme Electromagnetic Field Detectors. It hardly leaves us room for our dogs, but it is worth it at times like these. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/12 "2010-05-24T16:06:12Z")
> [@NineToTheSky](#): > > So it’s beeve mutes now? It’s a mute point. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/13 "2010-05-24T16:22:24Z")
From your link: > [@](#): > > Chuck Zukowski, a self-described UFO investigator and reserve El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy Ummmmmmmmmmm. . .seriously?:rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/14 "2010-05-24T16:27:55Z")
> [@carol\_nistri](#): > > Mutilations. This just happend guys,and its not predators.Nor is it scavengers. YOU actually SAW it happen, yourself? Just now? I don’t understand the article. One guy is quoted saying: > [@](#): > > “The (female cow’s) sexual organs were removed, the eyes were removed, a tongue was removed,” said Chuck Zukowski, a self-described UFO investigator and reserve El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy, who is trying to solve Duran’s case. > > “The pattern is that of surgical cuts. There are no bite marks. There are no scratch marks. There’s no carnage on the ground…It’s as if it was under surgery.” Since that’s the _exact pattern_ **known** and **observed** to occur from natural predation, scavenging, and decay, is he saying the aliens are _intentionally mimicking_ a natural process to make it impossible to spot their activities? Why else would the aliens so precisely do exactly what occurs naturally, even to the point of making the tears in the flesh look like “laser cuts” to ignorant yokels? Wow, they’re mush more devious than I realized. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/15 "2010-05-24T16:48:46Z")
So, there’s a dead cow in a field. The sex organs, eyes, and tongue (in other words, the softest, tastiest bits that, say, crows or other small birds could most easily snack on) are missing. And there’s no blood (almost as if, say, the cow dropped dead of old age and its fluids settled to the lowest part of the carcass before the scavenger birds showed up). Wow, that IS mysterious. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/16 "2010-05-24T16:49:47Z")
I’m disappointed **carol nistri** missed out on a chance to call this thread Cattle Prattle. By the way I don’t see any evidence that the ‘UFO expert’ has any kind of relevant experience, so why are we supposed to trust him? ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheField](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/13edae/32.png) [@LilyoftheField](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheField)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/17 "2010-05-24T18:07:19Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > So, there’s a dead cow in a field. The sex organs, eyes, and tongue (in other words, the softest, tastiest bits that, say, crows or other small birds could most easily snack on) are missing. And there’s no blood (almost as if, say, the cow dropped dead of old age and its fluids settled to the lowest part of the carcass before the scavenger birds showed up). > > Wow, that IS mysterious. Dude! You forgot about the electromagnetic field around the cow head! :eek: Betcha can’t explain that, huh?!! ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/18 "2010-05-24T20:02:17Z")
OMG, this again? I’m still bloated from all the popcorn I ate during the last thread. Carol, sweetheart, you’re not going to get much more out of us if you don’t tell us WHY you assert that predators and scavengers were so definitely not involved. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2010, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/19 "2010-05-24T22:26:31Z")
Carol, can you explain why you don’t think it’s predators or scavengers? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2010, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550/20 "2010-05-25T04:13:24Z")
And shit. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-mundane-pointless-stuff-on-cattle/540550.md?page=2)