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Cow crashes through coffee house roof injuring man playing dominoes

By Associated Press, 7/11/2001 13:56

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) Ethem Sahin thought his friends were kidding when they told him how he ended up in the hospital.

But they witnessed the cow fall through the roof of the coffee house where they were playing dominoes and knock Sahin unconscious.

''My friends told me later what happened. I couldn't believe it,'' Sahin told the Anatolia news agency.

Sahin's wife, Rahime, was equally incredulous.

''They told me that a cow fell on top of my husband,'' she said. ''I thought they were kidding me. May God protect us from a worse accident.''

Sahin was treated in the hospital for a broken leg and needed seven stitches to his forehead after the freak accident Tuesday in the central Anatolian city of Nevsehir.

The cow apparently wandered from the hillside where it was grazing onto the roof of the coffee house, which was built into the side of the hill.

The cow was not seriously injured.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Answers

If this was in the US the news agencies would milk it dry.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

Glad to hear the cow is ok. You'd think it might have twisted an ankle on one of those domino pieces.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

May God protect ME from a worse accident!

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

helen, you just get the falling goats.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

That sounds cheesy... LOL

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001

This is probably an urban legend, but it is just weird enough to be believable.

Supposedly, a crew of Japanese fishermen were detained after their boat sank because they told the police that a cow fell out of the sky and put a large hole in the boat.

Upon further investigation, they found out that the crew of a Russian military cargo plane had jettisoned a stolen cow after it went bezerk in their plane.

The location of the plane and the boat matched up and the fishermen were released.

-- Anonymous, July 12, 2001