Wahoo! Ride 'em quake cowboys!

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AFP/Getty Images - OJIYA, JAPAN: Japanese "cowboys" escort cows as they evacuate their livestock farm in Ojiya after the strong earthquakes that have jolted central Japan, 28 October 2004.

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Mad Cow Rescue

or, rather, Mad Rescue of Relieved Cows ...

Farmer hires helicopter to transport quake-stranded cows

YAMAKOSHI, Niigata -- A farmer has hired a helicopter to transport his cows that were stranded in an isolated village here since the Oct. 23 earthquakes ...

... "I cannot discard living cows," said farmer Osamu Takano. "Whatever it costs, I will save them all." ...

A spokesbovine for the cows said that, although the airlift was appreciated, many of the older cows had expressed concern as to whether the skydiving part was really necessary ...