"Drink 'til the cows go home"

[Joel S. Berson]

The latest local news from Boxford, Mass.  Many reports (local TV
included videos); such as ABC News, 3:14 PM:

Cows Crash Mass. Beer Party and Drink Up

...
Police in Boxford, Mass., arrived at the scene of a backyard party on
Sunday night to find six cows helping themselves to a table full of beer.

The cans of beer were left behind by the 12 or 13 young adult females
who had been enjoying their Sunday night when the cows crashed their
party in Boxford, a Boston suburb with a population of nearly 8,000,
according to police.

"I could hear them [the partygoers] screaming in the backyard and I
hoped they weren't getting trampled," Lt. James Riter
<http://www.wickedlocal.com/boxford/newsnow/x1898615749/Bovine-beer-bash-in-Boxford?img=3#axzz1vngwyxen>told
WickedLocal Boxford, which first reported the story.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/05/cows-crash-mass-beer-party-and-drink-up/

Still video of the cows lined up at the beer table:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/05/24/cows-crash-party-help-themselves-to-beer-in-boxford/
(There probably are clearer shots, and some showing action.)

Not "girls' night out", but, as one of the WCVB reporters said,
"cows' night out".  (I see that's not original, but was the title of
an episode of "Back at the Barnyard", a Nicktoon, in 2008.)

Joel

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