{"id":1975,"date":"2005-08-07T23:38:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-08T04:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=1975"},"modified":"2005-08-07T22:10:49","modified_gmt":"2005-08-08T03:10:49","slug":"cowboy_upif_you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/cowboy_upif_you\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboy up&#8230;if you dare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www-ccs.cs.umass.edu\/cris\/bombay1998\/powai\/pow-scooter-cow.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"scooter-cow.jpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sepiamutiny.com\/sepia\/archives\/scooter-cow-thumb.jpeg\" width=\"291\" height=\"215\" hspace=10 vspace=10 align=left \/><\/a>Q: How do you deal with the estimated 40,000 cows who wander the streets of Delhi?<\/p>\n\n<p>A: Put a price on their heads!  <a href=\"\nhttp:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/go\/pr\/fr\/-\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/4749891.stm\">Sort of<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nAn Indian court has issued an order telling authorities in Delhi to offer a reward for people catching stray cows roaming the capital&#8217;s streets.<\/blockquote>\n\n<blockquote>\nThe Delhi High Court ordered southern Delhi authorities to pay 2,000 rupees ($45) to anyone delivering a stray cow to them.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Though another court order addressed this situation two years ago, not much progress has been made; the animals are still a traffic hazard. The bounty-equipped bovines will be taken to a shelter before they are auctioned off to fund the scheme.<\/p>\n\n<p>This is something I&#8217;ve always been curious about&#8211; where do the meandering animals come from in the <em>first<\/em> place?  Are they drawn to the bright lights of the big city like so many of us villagers?<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nMost are let loose to wander by unscrupulous dairy owners.<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>And how&#8217;s this new strategery working for you, Delhi (to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotten.com\/library\/bio\/mad-science\/dr-phil\/\">bite Dr. Phil<\/a>)?<\/p>\n\n<blockquote>\nCatching a free roaming cow is not easy &#8211; on the first day of the cash scheme there was not one claimant.<\/blockquote>\n\n<!--more-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: How do you deal with the estimated 40,000 cows who wander the streets of Delhi? A: Put a price on their heads! Sort of. An Indian court has issued an order telling authorities in Delhi to offer a reward &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/cowboy_upif_you\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}