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Stop Me If You’ve Herd This One

The Sanford (Fla.) Police Department was chasing a stolen vehicle when it crashed by a cow pasture. Of the three passengers, police say, Erin Thomas, 38, stayed with the vehicle, but driver Jamie Michael Young and Jennifer Anne Kaufman, both 46, ran into the field. Young was quickly chased down with the help of a police dog, but Kaufman got away into the darkness — at least briefly. As she ran through the field, the crew of a Seminole County Sheriff’s Office helicopter watched via an infrared camera as she was chased, but not by officers. “Actually, a large group of cows is following her for a good visual,” the chopper crew told officers on the ground by radio. “It looks like they may attack her.” They didn’t, but shortly after they advised, “She’s pretty far into the field now. If you see the large group of cows, they’re literally following her and chasing her.” Kaufman finally got to a fence where she could get away from the cows — but the bovines had herded her right into the arms of the officers. She was jailed, charged with petit theft, possession of cocaine and drug paraphernalia, trespassing, resisting arrest, and violation of probation. (RC/Tampa Bay Times) ...When told what chased her down in the dark, all she could say is “Bull!”