Using ropes and slings, firefighters removed a 1,200-pound cow from an in-ground pool in Bethlehem Thursday night.
The neutered male, technically a steer, had slipped through an opening in the fence at Percy Thomson Meadows with two other cows and hoofed it to the Thomson Road neighborhood where Fire Chief Ken LeClerc lives, LeClerc said. He encountered one of the massive creatures standing in the road about 10:45 p.m.
“I was coming home from the firehouse, and one of the three was in the road. I thought, ‘That’s a really big bear,’ " he said. Then he saw that the beast was two different colors.