Farmers believe thieves are selling bull semen on the black market

In one case, semen valued at $22,000 was stolen; it was supposed to be used to breed high-end cows for the show ring and milk production. (Janesville, Wis. Gazette)

Comments

[LimeGreenLizard]

How do they know? Did someone sniff a tissue?

[Reno]

TFA - "The semen is irreplaceable."

Emp, we're gonna need you to get on down to the farm as soon as possible...

[American Veteran]

LGL,
The janitor stole it.

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

Why travel? I have 4.9 milk containers of bull semen in my fridge. BTW- Storing Bull Semen in a milk container next to the milk may not have been the best idea, in hindsight.

[American Veteran]

I found out how they accumplished it.

CAUGHT IN THE ACT

[lester]

$35k in bull semen? i'm guessing that this is an excellent example of how labor adds value to a product.

[Phranqlin]

The masturbating teacher can put his talents to work in service to America's dairy land.

Maybe the thieves are planning to use the tanks to build the mother of all meth labs.

[NitroPress]

Put Grace Van Owen on the case! (A flashback for LA Law fans...)

[RockyMtnMac]

It's not semen that is valuable, it is the genetics. This happened a few years ago and they were tried for rustling (which in the West, is a VERY big deal. The reason it is irreplaceable is because of the bulls being deceased.
A fire took out an entire barn full of bulls back in the 80's. The individual units of semen that were collected and ready for sale went from being worth maybe $50.00 per vial, jumped up to anywhere from 1K to 25K overnight.

[BlueMary]

Rmm, I find it disturbing that you know so much about the market value of bull spluge.

[johnjohn]

Just as bad as horse thieves! I say hang the rustlers! I hates rustlers!

[Emperor Norton the 1st]

One can never know too much about splooge. A friend of seed is a friend indeed.

[buddy]

you guys need to grow up.

[The Hermit]

And thats no bull !!

[LimeGreenLizard]

Wow, buddy! That's the first time you've ever said that to us, instead of us saying that to you! Hit puberty have you?

BlueMary, RMM got it honest, tending cows on horseback at an age most of us were playing GI Joe. (Or Barbie in your case) Watch out for her lasso. She ain't afraid to use it. Her spurs, either.

[Fernortner]

It would be interesting to know who would be buying all this semen in the black market, besides Elton John, Kevin Spacey, or Jon Bon Jovi.

[buccag74]

someone maybe drinking on the job and no one is aware