The award-winning “Eat Mor Chikin” marketing campaign used by fast food chicken chain Chick-fil-A has been extremely successful since 1995, but in a bizarre twist, apparently one of their bovine models took the slogan a bit too seriously.

When 48 chickens disappeared over a one-month period in the remote village of West Bengal, India, everyone blamed it on the local dogs. However, when Ajit Ghosh, the owner of the missing chickens, staked out the cow shed — which also serves as the chicken coop — he discovered that his sacred cow was actually the one devouring the chickens alive.

Ajit’s brother, Gour Ghosh said, “Instead of the dogs, we watched in horror as the calf, whom we had fondly named Lal, sneak to the coop and grab the little ones with the precision of a jungle cat,” Gour Ghosh, brother, said.

According to the district’s veterinarian, the strange behavior is possible in some cases and he believes a lack of vital minerals drove the cow to eat the chickens.

Of course the obvious story being spread by the local population is that the cow was a tiger in a previous life. He must have been a very good tiger to be reincarnated as a sacred cow, but now he’s being a very naughty cow, so he’ll probably have to come back as a human in the next life. Damn, and he was so close to enlightenment.

Source: Reuters

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