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Feb 13, 2013 News
– Eighth in four years
Electricity theft has cost the St. Stanislaus College farm in Sophia to lose another of its cows.
The animal was electrocuted yesterday morning when it stepped on a wire running through the farm’s pasture, taking current to squatters on the dam near the Downer canal.
Mahadeo Mansaran, the Manager of the farm, told Kaieteur News yesterday that they have been in the predicament for the past four years, during which they have been “living on edge”, having to avoid the crisscrossing live wires that run alongside the farm’s fence.
According to Mansaran, the cows are usually set out to graze in the pasture that is completely fenced.
He explained that yesterday, workers heard the strange cries of the cow and upon checking, they saw that it was lying on a live wire.
“We couldn’t do anything to save it,” Mansaran told this newspaper.
According to the farm manager, this is not the first time that a cow was electrocuted by illegal live wires passing through the farm. He informed that this is the eighth cow that the farm has lost under similar circumstances within the past four years.
“We report this (electricity theft) to the police, and GPL would come and cut off the wires, but as soon as GPL reach out on the road, the people does put back the wires,” Mansaran said.
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