Cattle Class

This Ain't The Calgary Stampede

There was a stampede at McDonald's in West Haven, Utah. No, not customers. Cows. Yup, cows. Yup, I see the irony of this situation! Eight of them escaped from a trailer when the rear gate opened as the driver pulled in. It took about two hours to round them up. "Maybe they were going to hop in the freezer, save the middleman," Weber County sheriff's Sgt. Dave Creager said. The roundup was called "Operation Hamburger Helper" and a nearby resident even hopped on his horse. Wayne Sanders said, "I don't know where they came from, but I'd say they'd have to weigh 800 pounds apiece and they were on a pretty good trot."

FOOTNOTE: Would you like frights with that?

Red In The Face

Merlot Man Has A Lot On His Plate



Merlot, a variety of grape or a type of red wine, is not acceptable for a personalised license plate in the US. Utah man Glenn Eurick's 1996 Mercedes has had the licence plate ``MERLOT'' for 10 years. He says the plate never got a lot of notice until the Utah Tax Commission told him last week that he had to remove it because the state doesn't allow intoxicant words on plates. Eurick said one man even asked whether he had chosen the word ``because there were too many letters in cabernet sauvignon''. Eurick said he will challenge the state's decision.