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One of several sneaky beaky photos of Border Patrol agents from roughly 1/2 mile away.

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[–] Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone 65 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Unironically, cows are great indicators of what’s normal in fields and pastures. They’re up over there investigating ICE because they’ve never seen them or their vehicles before.

During WWII there are stories of both sides having issues in rural France because milk cows would come up to their hiding spots, crying to be milked (going unmilked is painful for dairy cows).

[–] Philippe23@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Cows are super curious by nature. Milked/Unmilked probably doesn't matter.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

The crying part is the difference.

They don’t really moo a lot when investigating. They will moo excessively when uncomfortable

[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

That's really interesting. Never heard mention of this before

[–] Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Isn't Border Patrol hated by everyone, including local police and real immigration officers (not ICE)

[–] DesertDwellingWeirdo@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I've had plenty of encounters with border patrol and typical blues and border patrol is exponentially less professional and more coercive on average.

[–] bender223@lemmy.today 8 points 1 month ago

Yeah, if the gov and corpos are gathering intel on us, we should do the same to them and warn each other of possible threats. 😤

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Lumisal@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Cow is double agent actually

[–] Slovene@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago

I KNEW cows were sketchy!

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Border patrol is hardly related to our current problems. Even following orders to go stand in a certain place isn't terrible until you actually do something wrong.

The fact that people (National Guard, Marines, whatever) showed up in LA is a problem. Most of those actual people themselves are not the problem.