The afternoon sunlight poured across the small table on the balcony. I sipped my coffee and continued to talk with my friend. With great shock and nervous laughter, she stood up, almost knocking my coffee over, and pointed across the road to the opposite building. At first I didn't notice, though I'm beginning to wonder how I previously hadn't, but then I saw in disbelief. Laying on top of the tin roof which stretched over the footpath was a black cow. A shiny, rather large black cow, soaking in the sun. My friend was asking questions, laughing in confusion and complete shock, then running to grab her camera. I froze, of shock and fear. I wanted to do something, to tell somebody.
My friend returned, snapping away and still asking questions knowing that she wouldn't receive an answer. She decided that she wanted the cow to stand up, 'How funny,' she said, 'A cow walking around on a roof! That is just fucking hilarious.' She began yelling out to the cow, when that didn't work she clapped her hands and mooed at the cow.
With a load bang the cow jumped up, and began to run across the roof, with an earpiercing sound. The cow ran towards a long stained glass window just above the roof. He jumped through the window, smashing it to pieces, followed by a loud thump, and then silence.
It was too much to take in, too unbelievable. My friend was in shock. We remained silent, waiting.
Shortly afterwards, the cow leaped back onto the roof, which somehow managed to hold his weight. Following the cow were a young couple, the woman half dressed and screaming at the cow. The cow pushed the man, who fell onto the roof, seemingly unharmed. The woman was furious, 'Who do you think you are?' she screamed, her fists in the air aimed toward the cow. But the cow wasn't holding back, he rose up on his hind legs for a split second, then fell back down pushing the woman over the edge of the roof with his front legs. My friend and I raced downstairs, as quickly as the man. I called an ambulance from a shop downstairs, the ambulance officer needing strong convincing that a woman was pushed off a roof by a cow.
The woman was conscious, though appeared to be in deep pain. I asked her if anything in her house was broken from the cow besides the window, and she said her bracelet was the only thing that broke. The ambulance came and said that she was going to be fine, and asked where the cow was. My friend and I looked at one another, and then at the roof.
We searched up and down the street, in buildings and on rooves, but the cow was never seen or heard from again.