Video report on cow-eating tree

Last week, I posted the cryptobotanical tale of a tree that's allegedly eating cows in Uppinangady, Mangalor, India. Over at Cryptomundo, Loren Coleman found a TV Daijiworld report from the village, including interviews with witnesses, footage of the tree (now chopped), and an introduction to one of the victims. I especially dig the 70s porn soundtrack that segues into a rip-off of the X-Files theme. Link

Previously on BB:
• Tale of the tree that ate cows Link
• Virtual museum of carnivorous plants Link
• Plant eats mouse Link

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Landowner

I thought it would at least be a big scary tree like in Wizard of Oz. A sapling tried to eat a cow? I guess you have to have faith.
Perla

I see treehugging in a different light…. perhaps I should try it.
chappai

The interesting music for the first two cues in the story come from British sci-fi series created by Gerry Andersen.

The first cue is the main title from the series UFO. The second cue is the main title from Space: 1999. Both pieces were originally composed by Barry Grey who scored most of Andersen’s work.

No idea who performed these pieces.
Matt Staggs

Seems like one Mr. Schulz published some work pertaining to a kite-eating tree…could be related.

The truth is out there – and it keeps moving the damn football.
Gamma

Cow gets tail caught in tree. Seven minutes of details at 7.
David Pescovitz

@Gamma (#3)… My thought exactly. But I prefer to imagine something like what’s depicted here.
Flying Squid

Cows don’t eat trees, they eat grass.
David Pescovitz

@Gamma (#10), Looks fun!
I Am Dali

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Christovir

@#5 Cows do eat grass of course, but they will readily eat tree leaves and sometimes tree bark. Not to be pedantic or anything…
Barbara Doduk

what don’t people report? holy cow.
Mark Temporis

I am fairly sure the X-Files like music is from the remixed long version of the X-Files theme from Mark Snow’s “The Truth and the Light”.
Gamma

David, that wiki link reminds me that I need to re-read Stanley G. Weinbaum’s science fiction stories. They were so much fun before NASA spoiled everything with their damn probes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite_Planet