Kicker: When cows fly

NICK EICHER, HOST: That’s the sound of a rescue helicopter in Italy. Last week a cow got a little too close to the edge of a ravine. It was foraging for food and fell down into Lake Varano. The shore line was too steep,  so local firefighters got involved.

The first responders adapted a harness, carefully wrapped it around the cow, and air-lifted it to the other side of the lake. Online video shows the cow suspended more than a hundred feet in the air.

So how do you imagine the cow enjoyed its flight?

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Too bad, Jenny and I were busy on a different farm last week, so we couldn’t look into this story.

EICHER: So we’ll have to assume Mother Goose was right that the cow was over the moon.

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