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Most Ridiculous, Out of Context Panels and Screenshots ever 17 - FURRY DIO FURRY DIO

Throwing cows into besieged cities was a popular tactic in medieval Europe. It involved the use of siege catapults to drop dead cows into the city. Due to the city being under siege, the people aren't able to throw them out for fear of being sniped by enemy crossbowmen. As if medieval European cities weren't unhygienic enough, the rotting cows made it worse, causing the spread of horrible infectious diseases among the people living near these corpses. In time, the whole city would come down with the plague, considerably weakening the defending militia and leaving the invaders a dead city to walk into.

Cow artillery is attributed to be one of the major reasons for the spread of the Black Death.
 
Tbf the Black Plague was caused by a ton of factors happening at once, including the fact that european farms were simply not productive enough to sustain a growing population, leading to starvation, leading to more people getting sick, leading to less farmers, etc.

Regardless I don't want to derail this with serious stuff so have this

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