Cow Slaughter Backfires For Australian Man

Talk about not being able to hit the broad side of a barn. An Australian man who twice missed while trying to shoot a friend's cow, only to accidentally shoot a passer-by in the leg, now knows this better than anyone.

Rudolf Stadler, 61, agreed in April last year to shoot a troublesome cow which belonged to a friend who owns a farm. He lured the cow to a shed, and then took aim with his rifle. He missed. He took aim a second time, fired and missed again.

The second shot went through the back of the shed, a fence across a paddock and then through the door of a car being driven along a road behind the farm.

And the bullet hit 46-year-old Carrie Tunning in the leg. Tunning, a passenger in the car, made a full recovery but Stadler was so distressed by the incident that he handed in his firearms license.

The court fined him Australian $1,000 and banned him from obtaining another gun license for five years. The cow was not so lucky, with Stadler eventually finding his mark.

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