Holy cow

For your amusement, I offer up the following New York Times news brief, in its entirety and without comment:

World Briefing | Europe

Poland: How to Calm a Cow

By REUTERS

Published: September 23, 2006

A woman in western Lobez who grew marijuana to calm the nerves of her cow has been charged with cultivating a narcotic. The cow had been “skittish and unruly” — once breaking someone’s arm — until someone suggested mixing marijuana in with the feed, the woman told the police. The plants, grown from seeds bought at a market, reached nearly three yards tall, and the cow, the woman said, “became as calm as a lamb.”