Cow Crashes Through Roof of Man’s Home in Brazil

A cow crashed through a roof of a home in Brazil, killing a sleeping man, it was reported.
Cow Crashes Through Roof of Man’s Home in Brazil
File picture of cattle along a road near Pocone, Mato Grosso state, western Brazil on January 31, 2011. (YASUYOSHI CHIBA/AFP/Getty Images)
Jack Phillips
7/15/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

A cow crashed through a roof of a home in Brazil, killing a sleeping man, it was reported.

The mother of the man, Joao Maria de Souza, told NBC News that he was sleeping with his wife when the cow fell through the roof of their home in Caratinga.

The cow is believed to have escaped a farm nearby. It climbed onto a home via steep hill.

The animal feel eight feet on Souza’s bed. His wife was not injured.

De Souza died from internal bleeding because he waited too long to visit the doctor.

“Being crushed by a cow in your bed is the last way you expect to leave this earth,” said his brother. “But in my view it wasn’t the cow that killed our Joao, it was the unacceptable time he spent waiting to be examined.”

His mother told a local website: “I didn’t bring my son up to be killed by a falling cow. He nearly died when he was two and got meningitis, but I worked hard to buy medicines for him and he survived,” according to the Daily Mail. “And now he’s lying in his bed and gets crushed to death by a cow,” she said. “There’s no justice in the world.”

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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