It's not every day that a small boy gets to visit the big city by himself. But that's just what happened years ago to young Ernest R. Hoytt Jr. of Dover, New Hampshire.
Call it a cruel twist of fate. A cow being transported to a slaughterhouse managed to escape from the trailer it was being held in and then engaged in a 45 minute standoff with Auburn Police before being shot and killed. File this under the "you can't make this stuff up" section...