The following is a fictional story:
East Bridgewater residents were astonished to find ten cows grazing on the high school's football field early Monday morning.
The cows had escaped from the nearby barn at Peaceful Meadows in Whitman. The management there believes that the cows wandered out of their barn around midnight via a side door carelessly left open by a new trainee. "After they got out, I guess they just wandered around town looking for a good grazing spot," said manager Susan LaGlace, "They've had quite the adventure!"
For the cows their grazing elysium was EBHS football field. They were discovered there, happily feasting, by student Kelly Moore when she arrived for school at 6:30. Moore had arrived early to take a make-up chemistry test and discovered the cattle after she parked her car in the back lot. "I was just thinking ok, I know its early, but I can't be hallucinating cows. Can I?" said Kelly.
After realizing that this was indeed not a dream, Kelly did the only thing she could do, she called the fire department. After arriving, the fire fighters were baffled by the unusual task they had been set. They had to contain the cows before school started, so they herded the cows into the adjacent, enclosed tennis courts. The resourceful fire fighters used boards, ladders, trucks and any thing else handy to guide the scared cows. Students arriving for school were befuddled by the sight of the heifers wandering among the tennis nets.
Soon, the fire department received a panicked call from the Peaceful Meadow staff searching for the bodacious bovines. By 10:00 all the cows had been boarded onto the barn's cattle car and were headed home. "They are back at their stable safe and sound, sleeping off their late-night escapade," said barn manager Ary Holstein, "I don't think they'll be up for another adventure for a long time."
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