Lightning Strike Kills 52 Cows

[Crostorm]

Fifty-two cows have been killed by a single lightning strike in a freak accident at a ranch in Uruguay.

Newspaper El Pais reported that the cows had pressed themselves against a wire fence during a storm when the lightning bolt struck in the northern Uruguayan state of San Jose.

A photograph released by the San Jose Police Department shows the black and brown cows lying dead in a row.

The newspaper said that vets at the scene confirmed the cause of the deaths, which happened on Wednesday.

The experts also said that cows often crowd around fences to seek protection during bad weather.

Meteorologist Fernando Torena said he was not surprised that a single lightning bolt killed so many cows.

But he called it "very bad luck".

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[HurricaneBill]

Burgers, anyone?

[Tampa Bay Hurricane]

Tragic. Cows are really wonderful animals. My predecessors used
to have dozens back in India 40 years ago. Then they immigrated
to the US.

[HURAKAN]

Cows that live in farms are very prone to die by lightning. Most farms have open fields with very limited foliage. Cows then go under a tree to scape from the rain and since a tree in most likely the tallest object in an open field, lightning will strike the tree and the cows get electrocuted.

This is a picture of this event:

[Bunkertor]

Poor steaks

[tropicana]

absolutely horrible i feel so sorry for them.
they must have been scared too

-justin-