Storm may have thrown Ga. bull into different pasture
HAZLEHURST, Ga. (WTOC) - You’ve heard the expression when pigs fly, but what about when cows fly?
That what might have happened at Charles Marchant’s farm in Hazlehurst last Tuesday.
Straight line winds extensively damaged a barn.
“The front half of the barn’s gone and the back half of the barn’s gone,” said Charles Marchant, the owner of Hazlehurst Farm.
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And sucked up water from a trough.
“Possibly it was like a water spout.”
And threw the container into a treeline.
“That’s where I found it at.”
But possibly the strangest thing was that the bull moved from one enclosure, to another.
“We had one bull wind up in this pen where the horses were at, and we couldn’t figure out how he got there because the gates were shut.”
After the storm was over, the National Weather Service came to the farm and in preliminary reports, said that the storm had “literally lifted a bull from one pasture to another.”
“They said a tornado was a very strong piece of God’s work, and it’s done a lot of things worse than picking up a bull.”
Days later, Marchant says an insurance surveyor claims to have seen a bull jump over one of the fences.
“It’s up to here on me. I don’t understand it either.”
The National Weather Service says there’s no way to know for sure what exactly happened but around Hazlehurst, Marchant says the legend of the bull is already growing.
“People want to know about the bull. Everybody comes by, where’s the bull, where’s the bull? Or is that bull manure you’re talking about? I said, ‘I’m just talking about what I know,’” said Marchant.
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