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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - What's a big cud-chewing
Scottish cow have to do with preserving public
decency?

According to the mayor of a small Dutch town, allowing
Highland heifers to graze in a nearby nature reserve
will help deter couples who have scandalized the
upright citizens of Spaarnwoude with their open-air
sex antics.

Mayor Ellen van Hoogdalem-Arkema said the brazen
behavior of amorous outdoor enthusiasts has angered
and embarrassed people walking their dogs in the
reserve or taking their grandchildren for a stroll.

"Visitors experience great annoyance from people
having sex in public and apparently the presence of
the cows turns the people off having sex," the mayor
said.

The idea of using cows to cool passions in the park
originated from another nature reserve south of
Amsterdam, which saw an unexpectedly serendipitous
reduction in sex prowlers after allowing the cows to
graze in its fields.

Van Hoogdalem-Arkema said that the reserve's status as
public land made problem tricky to solve and urgent.

"I just got off the phone with a man who was cycling
in the area with his children, when suddenly two naked
men came running across the road." she added with a sigh.

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just as long as they don't think grazing sheep will solve the problem...

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Why do you think we...oops, I mean the men were running...the pasture was on the other side of the road!

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