Hiker hospitalised after cow attack

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A woman from Germany suffered serious injuries when a group of holidaymakers were attacked by a herd of cows. The 10-member group of vacationers told police they tried to walk past the heifers on a pasture near St. Nikolai in Styria’s Liezen district when the cows pounced on them yesterday (Weds). The tourists claimed they […]

Tractor-driving farmer falls down embankment

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A farmer was hospitalised after he suffered an accident with his tractor yesterday (Weds).The 48-year-old man was driving his tractor up a pass road near Taxenbach in Salzburg’s Pinzgau region when the vehicle and the manure tank it was towing overturned on a bend.The farmer sustained undisclosed injuries when the tractor and the trailer plunged […]

Escaped cows take a dip

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Three runaway cows went for a splash at a public pool in Tyrol this morning (Fri).The animals, two mother cows and one calf, grazed at the local pool after escaping their fenced meadow at a farm in Oberau – and jumped into the water-filled pool when 30 fire-fighters tried to catch them.All three heifers were […]

Hash grower nabbed in Carinthia

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A dimwit Carinthian growing marijuana on a pasture close to a popular recreation area faces drug charges after being caught red-handed by police.Officials in Spittal said today (Thurs) the 20-year-old had harvested cannabis on a pasture near the Drau River meadows. Police, who confiscated several drug-producing devices, have already informed prosecutors who are set to […]

Alpine village celebrates a €17m meadow

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Green Austria

These cows are enjoying the grass – and the view – on the world’s most expensive pasture in the form of a 17 million euro meadow. Look closely and you can see that this narrow strip of land that runs through the village of Trebesing in Carinthia, Austria, was once a motorway that has now […]