Florida is often the butt of a great many jokes from the other U.S. states, and look, let's be honest: All those jokes are accurate. A lot of really weird stuff happens in Florida:
Imagine: You're sipping your habitual glass of warm milk before bedtime when you discern the unmistakable sound of animal hooves on asphalt. Lots of animal hooves. When you look out your window, you see the cause of the ruckus. It's a small herd of Holstein cows, trundling down your suburban street. What sounds like a literal fever dream was real life for residents of a Miami Lakes neighborhood on Thursday night. In a video posted on Instagram by a neighbor and shared by Only In Dade, more than a dozen cows can be seen trotting down a palm tree-lined street, escorted by Miami-Dade police. Neighbors stare in amazement and hold up phone cameras, their giggles audible over the clickety-clack of the herd.
Just as an aside, if I'm "sipping my habitual glass of warm milk" and a herd of cows comes thundering down my street, I'm closing the curtains and hiding under my bed, because I'm assuming they're coming back for that milk.
Some footage of the bovine marauders this week:
But wait! This week was not the first time Miami Lakes has been terrorized by a cattle cavalcade.
Yes, that's nearly three years ago. Neighbors confirmed to the Miami New Times the frequency of this chaos:
Neighbors said this is not the first time the cows have gotten loose.
"They escape every time. I don't know what happens," said Diaz. "I don't know if the fence goes down or if someone does it on purpose, but the cows dip."
