Truck Damage

[Dusty Britches]

Sunday night, after the kids left, I let the cows out of one pasture and prepared to move them to another. They walked by the GMC and 2 got into a shoving match. One went into the side of the truck. Hubby was livid and beside himself. After he calmed down, he says, "Which cow did that?!"
My answer - the black one (they are all black). He says, "I want her sold on Thursday!"

I tried to pull the dent, but no avail. We took it to a body shop owned by a friend and he says he might be able to fix it, but it might need replacement. Ok, so I call State Farm this morning.

Here's the phone call - verbatim. I promise.

T - "I'd like to file a claim on my truck"

Operator (O) - "Ok, let me get some preliminary information. (name, address, policy #, etc.) What was the date of the Accident?"

T - Sunday night. I'm not sure you would call this an "accident". Perhaps I should tell you the story before you ask any more questions.

O - NOPE! I have a series of questions I have to ask IN ORDER. We'll get to the details in a second. Ok, so the Accident was Sunday night. What time.

T - (being the non-confrontational person that I am) Sixish.

O - Location of the Accident?

T - My house.

O - That would be Cameron?

T - Yes.

O - Ok. Tell me how this happened.

T - Well, see, there was this cow....

O - giggles.

T - and she hit the side of the truck.

O - (Obviously hysterical) Was the truck moving?

T - No, it was parked.

O - Laughing says "Was the cow drunk?" Then before I could say anything, she drops off laughing and was in tears.

T - "Oh, that was good. No, we didn't test for drugs or alcohol. There was another cow she was fighting with and that one pushed her into the truck."

O - Beside herself - "Cows fight???"

T - All the time. And when they do, it is best to stay out of their way.

O - That's some good advice. So, can you describe the location and extent of the damage?

T - Driver's side, rear quarter panel. Huge - huge dent.

O - Laughing - I can only imagine.

I'm sure I made her day. I'm still chuckling about it. I called hubby and asked him if he thought the cow was drunk or if we needed to start a Alcoholics Anonymous for the herd.

 

[Gate Opener]

That is funny. So, do they cover drunk or undrunk cow damage?

 

[Nowland Farms]

Tracey,

Been there done that. My Ladies got into a shoving match a few months ago a put a dent big dent in my passenger door. I yelled at the cows and they just stood there looking at me with a stupid look on their face. Just like my boys did when they were young.

I got lucky. I took the inside door panel off and was able to pop the dent out.

 

[TxCoUnTrYbOy]

My brother had a similar incident. Somehow he managed to get his cell phone stepped on by a hog, and when he called to get it replaced (has insurance on the phone), he told them a hog stepped on it and broke it. First thing they asked after that was "Would you like to press charges on the party responsible?" He just laughed and said "You didnt listen to what I just told you, did you? I said a HOG stepped on the phone and broke it." They didnt say much after that.

 

[Angus Guy]

Why fix it? You now have an official farm truck.

 

[Horticattleman]

We used to have one of those cows. Always drunk and mooing all loud. Always hung over and puking. We finally called it quits when we caught her smokin dope!

 

[Ryan]

My dad was in Tulsa at the fair there awhile back and had a horse dent the side of his truck. He was either loading or unloading the cattle and a parade that fairs/stock shows have was going past the cattle barn ... well something spooked the horse a lady was riding and it backed right into the bed of the truck. You could see where each "cheek" went into the bed.

 

[Caustic Burno]

My question is why do you drive a 35 or 40 thousand dollar pick up in the pasture. I don't buy trucks for cows to tear up they have to last to long around here. Hasn't been an automobile in one of my pastures in years.

 

[jw]

Why fix it? You now have an official farm truck.

That's how I turned my "Sunday go to Meeting" truck into my farm truck. Then I got to buy a nice car for "Sunday go to Meeting".

It was worth it, oh, and the insurance company did pay for the dent.

 

[Dusty Britches]

I told a friend of mine that we have a deworming program, a vaccination program, a tuberculosis testing program, a brucellosis testing program, and some say we even have an affirmative action program b/c we have off colored cows, but we never thought about a drug and alcohol testing program. :shock: :roll: :D :D

 

[Victoria]

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Reminds me of when we had a cow that needed a shot. She wasn't the nicest cow and couldn't get her up the regular chute. So being smart we used the shipping chute and just put posts 6' high in front of her to block off the ramp. At the end of the ramp which stands about 4'ish we parked our feeding truck. We've had one jump the posts and run up the ramp and escape so we started parking the truck there and then they see the truck and stop. Well we hadn't yet had number 3 in the chute. She saw the needle coming jumped the posts ran up the ramp and decided to jump the truck, except she was good at high jump, not so great at long jump. She landed on the roof and then slid down between the chute and the truck dangling there. We couldn't back up or we'd break a leg, go forward and break her neck (maybe it was the other way around, can't remember). She slowly was falling down and kind of pushing the truck sideways. She got out of it battered horribly so one little shot turned into 6 weeks of recovery. The truck had a dented roof but the worst part was the passenger door was so caved in that it wouldn't open. Mom phoned the insurance company and told the lady what happened. She said, "Oh I guess it's a write off." My mother explained it was not a write off and that she just needed a new door. The next issue was whether it came off the cows insurance policy or the trucks. Then Mom had to file an accident report. So off she went to talk to the RCMP. She told him that a cow jumped on the truck. He blinked a few times and then said "So, you hit a cow." "No," she replied "a cow hit the truck. No one was in the truck, it was parked." He looked at her for a long time to figure out if she were drunk or this was April Fool's day.
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