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Dairy farmer, 95, is reunited with treasured watch he lost to a hungry cow 50 years ago (www.shropshirestar.com)
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A metal detectorist has reunited a farmer with his Rolex watch – 50 years after it was eaten by a cow.

To the cow's credit, it does have four stomachs....

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[–] capt_wolf 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

For some reason my first thought (having skimmed the title and obviously not taking in all the details) was that it had remained in the cow until now and was going to suggest that making a hole and grabbing it like so so

would have been quicker, but I now after properly processing the information, I realise it probably shat it out not long after consuming it and it was lost to the muck all this time, and that poor cow is long gone. In which case the metal detector seems like the right tool for the job lol