When A Cow Leaves The EU, It Can't Return

A Bulgarian red cow strayed from its pasture near the hamlet of Kopilovtsi and visited the sovereign territory of non-EU member Serbia. Decorated with an EU ear tag, evidently a requirement in the bureaucratic wonderland that is the European Union, the bovine's ownership was determined and farmer Ivan Haralampiev was notified of the whereabouts of his missing bovine, known to him as Penka.



A red cow, but probably not Penka.

Ivan naturally happily led his cow home but was stopped at the Bulgarian border and denied admission due to the lack of necessary EU documentation. Regulations require that she be "put down", toddler talk for killed. There's no telling what kind of bovine disease she may have contracted in her wanderings. Somehow animal fanciers discovered this situation and have raised an internet ruckus. We won't know until Monday, June 11 if the Bulgarian servants of the EU will relent and allow Penka to return to her pasture or order her destruction. Of course, none of these bureaucrats will personally plunge a knife in her or send a rifle shot through her brain.

Postscript: Eu honchos in Bulgaria have relented under international pressure and reluctantly allowed Penka to return home.