Farmer thrown 10ft and repeatedly gored by bull played dead to survive attack

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Farmer thrown 10ft and repeatedly gored by bull played dead to survive attack

April 23rd, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

By
Paul Sims

PUBLISHED:

18:49 EST, 22 April 2012

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UPDATED:

18:49 EST, 22 April 2012

Ordeal: Lawrence Haygarth feigned death to survive after he was attacked by a bull at his farm

Ordeal: Lawrence Haygarth feigned death to survive after he was attacked by a bull at his farm in Penrith, Cumbria

A farmer told yesterday how he pretended to be dead after being thrown 10ft by a one-and-a-half ton bull and repeatedly gored.

Lawrence Haygarth was herding cattle on his farm in Penrith, Cumbria, when the Belgian Blue attacked.

The 69-year-old farmer – who suffered ruptured lungs, 17 broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and damage to almost every vital organ – said: ‘He had come silently through the cows, he was meaning to get me and he got me.

‘He meant to kill me. He spun me 10ft in the air and before I hit the ground he had me again.

‘After that he just bored me into the ground. I could feel my ribs breaking.

‘They were snapping like carrots. I put two fingers into his eye but it did not make any difference, he kept on coming at me.

‘He bored at me again and got me behind a wall. I didn’t think I was going to survive.

‘I could feel my lungs filling up with blood and I was gasping for breath.

‘Once he had got me behind the wall and kept attacking me I knew the only thing I could do was feign death to survive.

‘He thought he had beaten me. He was still very close to me. I could touch his nose he was so close, but luckily he stopped then because he thought I was dead.’

Mr Haygarth, who managed to gouge one of the bull’s eyes while trying to fight him off, spent two weeks recovering in hospital.

The alarm was raised by his grandson, Alfie Green, 11, who had been working in a nearby field.

He ran to his grandfather and then half a mile down a lane to flag down another farmer and raise the alarm.

The pilot of the Great North Air Ambulance was forced the down draft from his helicopter’s rotors to scare the bull far enough away to enable a paramedic to start life-saving treatment.

Mr Haygarth was airlifted to the Royal Lancaster Hospital before being transferred to the cardiac care and intensive care unit at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

He had owned the Belgian Blue for three years and though noisy, it had never previously been aggressive.

It was sold for slaughter days after the attack.

'I've got over it now, but I am not the man I was': Mr Haygarth, 69, suffered broken ribs and ruptured internal organs, and says he still has flashbacks of the terrifying ordeal

‘I am not the man I
was’: Mr Haygarth, 69, suffered broken ribs and ruptured internal
organs, and says he still has flashbacks of the terrifying ordeal

Mr Haygarth, who will retire after selling his 100-acre farm this week, added: ‘I still have problems with my shoulders and I cannot raise my arms above my head.

‘We are selling the farm and I will keep fell walking, fishing, and hunting.

‘The hospital said it would have killed most men younger than me, but I would not want to go through that again.

‘I’ve got over it now, but I am not the man I was. Nowhere near. But I am lucky to be alive.

‘Time is a great healer. I was getting a lot of flashbacks, I couldn’t get him out of my mind for weeks.

‘I should have watched the bull harder.’

Mr Haygarth’s wife Phyllis, 62, said: ‘The doctors said it was a miracle that he didn’t perish and that his internal organs didn’t burst during the attack.’