Was the revenge plan too elaborate to work ?

@topffer (42156)
France
August 25, 2018 9:02am CST
In a camping of Dordogne a dispute happened last week between campers, and a 37 years old woman decided to take a revenge à la Attila on her neighbors, a definitive one. She elaborated a plan with the help of a lot of weed and a few speed pills. She put the fire to 350 big haystacks that were in a shed near the camping. The arson was not the goal : in the field around the shed there were 150 cows, and she was thinking that the cows, frightened by the fire, would jump in the camping to devastate the tents of her bad neighbors ! Fine revenge, isn’t it ? It did not happened, the cows refused to cooperate, the firemen came quickly, they noticed the woman and called the gendarmerie. She was under drugs at a point that the gendarmes sent her to a hospital before questioning her the day after. And she confessed her incredible plan. She will be judged next January. Like Stephen Hawking said in 2010 : «We just look at ourselves to see how intelligent life turns into something we would not like to meet.»
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@LadyDuck (457868)
• Switzerland
25 Aug 18
The cows showed that not always humans are the most intelligent species.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
25 Aug 18
Or they had eaten themselves too many weeds. This woman watched too many westerns, a cow is not a buffalo.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
25 Aug 18
@LadyDuck Those town folks may be funny. Last day, I was speaking about a couple complaining about a church bell, and I wrote that they would soon complain against cicadas, and it has happened : another couple asked a pesticide to a mayor to shut up these damned cicadas. I was tempted to start another discussion about it, but it would be too much stupidity during the same day.
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@LadyDuck (457868)
• Switzerland
25 Aug 18
@topffer She surely had too many weeds, she thought to see cows with long horns.
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• China
26 Aug 18
We have a saying :Lift a rock only to drop it on one's own toes.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
26 Aug 18
It is a stupid accident in your saying, you are too good for this woman.
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• China
27 Aug 18
@topffer The woman was cruel-hearted.Don't know how her neighbors rubbed her up the wrong way that she took such a revenge on them.Can you tell me what à la Attila is ?
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• China
27 Aug 18
@topffer Thanks for clearing it up ! I don't know much about Attila the Hun.Over here it seems that Genghis Khan(the 13th century ) is more famous than Attila the Hun.
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@GardenGerty (157546)
• United States
25 Aug 18
She was obviously too strung out to think well. The cows are probably accustomed to seeing stupid stuff that humans do.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
25 Aug 18
With all these city folks in the camping near their field these ones are jaded when it comes to human stupidity.
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@much2say (53959)
• Los Angeles, California
7 Sep 18
Well that backfired! Her "brilliant" plan fizzled in the flames .
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@topffer (42156)
• France
7 Sep 18
Too brilliant for cows, or the cows were more brilliant than her.
@MALUSE (69413)
• Germany
25 Aug 18
I've found this on the net: "Natural stupidity is more dangerous than artificial intelligence." So true, so true! Carlos E. Perez (whoever that is)
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@topffer (42156)
• France
25 Aug 18
Good quote, but Hawking would not have shared this opinion. Reading what we call here "crushed dogs" news, I am tempted to start another one about a few more stupids, but it is perhaps too much for one day.
@JudyEv (325584)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Aug 18
I love the photos - but then I like cows. I hadn't heard the Stephen Hawking quote but it's very observant.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
27 Aug 18
This cow won a prize at our "Salon de l'agriculture." It is a very old species, Aubrac, genetically supposed to be issued from aurochs locally domesticated. It was a milk cow at start, and the milk was used to produce a specific cheese, but the quantities were too low, and it had quite disappeared after WWII. They crossed the Aubrac with Charolais, and it is now bred for meat.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
27 Aug 18
@JudyEv They were crossed with Charolais to give more meat, it worked and saved the Aubrac. All the attempts to make them produce more milk by cross-breeding failed.
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@JudyEv (325584)
• Rockingham, Australia
27 Aug 18
@topffer I've heard of the breed. We have Charolais in Australia and they are very popular, also as a meat breed.
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