(Las Vegas Review-Journal) Rancher Cliven Bundy says a Las Vegas woman injured when her car hit a cow on Interstate 15 near Mesquite should be suing the federal government instead of him.
In a statement issued late Thursday night by the Bundys, the embattled Bunkerville family said the real negligence belongs to federal authorities who scattered and distressed their cattle during a failed roundup that ended less than two days before Danielle Beck's April 14 car accident.
The 34-year-old schoolteacher recently filed suit against Bundy, who she claims "recklessly, carelessly and negligently allowed his cows to enter onto Interstate 15 through an area where he had no grazing or other rights."
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