Truck Wreck

       It was Wednesday afternoon, Benny is in his office talking to someone on the phone.   Will is painting and fixing up our Roswell Livestock Auction sign.  Smiley just left to take Kullen home to get his football stuff.  Martha gets a call from Jason Heritage, Head Livestock Inspector.  Jason tells Martha he needs to talk to Benny it's an emergency.  She tells Jason, Benny's on the phone.  So she leaves Benny a message to call Jason.  She tells me that Jason said it was an emergency....... So we wonder what's happened..... Martha & I talk about the possibilities..... Like new rules for TB or Bruc. Testing, or Trich. Testing or the VS or maybe something new.  Jason waits 5 minutes and then he calls back...   Martha ask him... is it really an emergency?  And of course it was... A truck (not ours) hauling fat cattle from Lubbock, TX to California missed the turn into Roswell and turned the truck over.  

     Benny and Will get their horses and call Smiley to meet them at the wreck site. It just so happens that the truck turned over right in front of our pasture.  The Berrendo Volunteer Fire department is there. Smiley is right there because it's close to his home and so he tells the Fire Dept how to cut the truck open.  Smiley, Jason and Carl Madison get inside the truck trailer with the cattle and start pushing the cattle out of the truck where Benny and Will are trying to get them into our pasture.  It was going really good until about 10 came out a once, then I'm not sure what happened.  (I wasn't there, but  I heard reports)  Benny and Will had to rope a couple of them. 

      One person told me, Will roped one almost to Pine Lodge road, another person told me that a different Truck almost got Benny while trying to rope one of them.  (Benny assured me he was in NO DANGER!)    

      We were at a meeting last night, some one asked me if it was our truck that turned over.  I told them it wasn't and they wanted to know why Benny, Smiley and Will went to help the Livestock Inspectors.   I told her, I guess they went to help because they called and asked and we would like someone to help us if it ever happened to us.  (Knock on wood)

      A lot of people are not aware of what the Livestock Inspectors do for this community.  There are people that complain about them all the time, but for the most part  they are just doing there job.  But Jason, Joe and George went beyond their job in this situation.  

     Carl Madison was driving by with his wife, when he saw, Smiley, Benny and Will.  He stopped to help and got right in the middle of it.  Carl is in his late 70's and will get it done. what ever it is.  A lot of other people stopped to watch and help, Some helped and other just got in the way.   

      Whatever was planned for Thursday got changed, because, Benny, Will, Smiley, Kullen and Jeremy and the livestock inspectors, spent the day gathering those cattle out of our pasture, so they could be put on a truck to their original destination.  

    It amazes me, what these guys do in a days time.  It is always something different!!!





 
Posted by Sale Barn Girls at 7/24/2009 11:09 AM
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