The Great Cow Escape!

"GREAT COW ESCAPE ! INVESTIGATORS SUSPECT CRIMINAL MASTERMIND BEHIND KILLER STAMPEDE ! DOZENS OF CHICKENS AND SHEEP DEAD, HUNDREDS MISSING IN CATTLE PANIC AT THE DOCKS ! MASTER CRIMINAL COW-FREER STILL ON THE LOOSE !"

Dateline- Wytchaven :

The serene tranquility of Sunday night in Wytchaven was shattered in a single terrifying instant when five hundred head of cattle were set free from holding pens on board a local shipment of beef and other livestock, killing some dozen sheep and chickens and scattering entire flocks of terrorized barnyard fowl into the night. "It was like a scene from one of those horror-plays that the Fool's Twitling Troupe used to do - before they ran afoul of Lord Aizen and were eaten." said a local resident who lives nearby.

Local farmers spent the next five hours rounding up stray cattle, and the chaos was eventually calmed as the sun rose over the village. Local officials said their only clues are the prints of small bare feet in the sand amid the trampling of hundreds of hooves, and they are now seeking answers -all citizens are asked to come forward with any information.

"I don't know what happened -" said one golden-haired milkmaid interviewed near the scene "But it suuuure made a biiig mess !