Persistant Cows Promoting New Highway Texting Areas

In a previous posting there was mention of a  texting teen plowing into a pack of cows crossing the road. An astute reader of this blog found that the name of the teen was ironic. Ms Cowit has now been arrested and charged with many acts of committing cowmageden.

In support of the Bovine Safety Commission, some cows have decided to conduct educational seminars geared toward ignorant texting motorists.

The article below has been published in our local newspaper, The Middletown Times Herald Record.

Cows on the run alongside Rte. 17

GOSHEN — Three cows saw the grass alongside Route 17 in the Town of Gos­hen as a good place to graze Friday eve­ning, startling rush-hour drivers.

State Troopers Nicholas Piazza and Michael Moran were at the scene near Exit 122A on Route 17 West, trying to corral the cows, which, police say, es­caped from a farm with an open gate about a quarter-mile up the road.

During the cows’ escapade, they lay down on the grass by the shoulder while a state Department of Environ­mental Conservation forest ranger and a good Samaritan who said he worked on a dairy farm helped, trying to get them away from the traffic and back home safely.

Two cows were coaxed back home, but the third seemed set on making a night of it for a time. Finally, the troop­ers, the forest ranger and the good Sa­maritan managed to get that last cow back safely inside her enclosure. Amy Berkowitz

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AMY BERKOWITZ/ Times Herald-Record State Troopers Nicholas Piazza, left, and Michael Moran corral the last of three cows Friday that escaped from a farm about a quarter-mile from Exit 122A in the Town of Goshen. The troopers – and two helpers – managed to round up the cows before they strayed into traffic.

Coming to a roadside near you......

Due to the powerful Bovine lobby initiative in Albany, the NYS Thruway Authority have completed installing new signs along the highways.

These new signs provide the number of miles to the next Text Area.


These new Texting Areas, funded using our tax dollars, used to be called Rest Stops. Often these roadside facilities would also have toilets and vending machines.

Now that these are designated areas for Texting it is probable that the bathrooms will be converted to mobile device charging stations.  It is better to text while crapping than texting and driving.

A lot could go wrong however if you are distracted while crapping.