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Cattle mutilation dismissed as "just a college prank"
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Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 09:53:08 PDT
From: "Alan H. Martin 16-Jul-1991 1223" <amartin@tle.enet.dec.com>
To: bob@tle.enet.dec.com
Subject: Cattle mutilation dismissed as "just a college prank"
BRAINTREE, Mass. (UPI) -- Managers of the Hilltop Steak House are
baffled as to why anyone would cut the heads off the restaurant's
trademark herd of life-size fake cows but vow to replace them.
Vandals apparently used power saws to decapitate six of seven
fiberglass cows outside the restaurant this weekend and also made off
with a calf, cutting it off at the hoofs, police said. None of the
missing heads or the calf have been recovered, police said.
``Nobody has called up claiming responsibility, no radical
vegetarians,'' assistant manager Marion Burke said Monday. ``We have no
idea why anyone would do it. I think it's just a college prank.''
Another assistant manager, Robert Griffin, had a theory.
``They're great looking,'' he said. ``Somebody's probably mounted
them on the wall. To have a Hilltop cow probably means a lot to them.
This isn't just a piece of junk cow -- these are beautiful.''
Griffin suspects the Hilltop herd's heads were rustled by more than
one person.
``It would take at least a half-hour to cut the head off even one
cow,'' he said.
Burke said the decapitation apparently took place sometime Saturday
night or early Sunday morning. The fiberglass slaughter was discovered
about 4 a.m. Sunday.
Burke said the resturant intends to replace the damaged bovines at a
cost of about $500 each.
Hilltop officials expressed concern about similar fiberglass herds it
has at its other restaurants in Saugus and Nashua, N.H.
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