A hundred years ago, a small farming community called 'Turiv' in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, was the unlikely scene of one of Britain's most anti-government riots, and in the midst of this was a bright white cow famous throughout the country as 'Turra Coo' Turra’s most famous “coo” story begins in 1911, the year the government introduced National Insurance.

Under this new scheme, workers and employers were required to contribute to the financing of state benefits, such as sickness and unemployment insurance, which were made mandatory for all workers between the ages of 16 and 70. National insurance was a good thing, but people were skeptical about it at the time. Many Scottish farmers remained unconvinced of the benefits of state support for those in need, and some felt that the level of contribution required of them was too high.

The farmers around Turra were angry, as this would increase the cost of employing farm workers, who felt they were already accustomed to good care and thus only benefited from the state's benefits. A local farmer named Robert Patterson, who employed many men on his farm, decided At Lendrum, setting an example, and refusing to stamp insurance cards for his employees, the authorities came to him at once and determined that he had committed as many as 20 offenses against the National Insurance Act of 1911.

He received five cumulative fines of £15, plus arrears from National Insurance contributions, Patterson paid the fine, but refused to reimburse the arrears. In response, the court ordered a local sheriff to seize £7 property from Patterson's farm, and when police officers came to seize his property, they took the only thing of value on hand, a white dairy cow, to be auctioned off.

Torev's farm farms refused to organize the sale and not a single local bidder came forward to buy, and the authorities fought hard and did another out-of-town auction and an auction downtown, and on the appointed day, the cow was tied up in the town square with the slogan "Lendrum to Leeks" on it. Referring to the then Secretary of the Treasury, David Lloyd George.

The plaza was full of people and the farm workers were given half a day off so that they could come and watch the auction or break it, and there was palpable tension in the place, the crowd was agitated and the cow was agitated, and then somewhere nearby, as some people remember, a dog barked and others suggested That Patterson himself yelled, "Yo hoo!" and the cow frightened and ran like a beast through the streets.

Then a riot broke out and a hundred guards began to pelt police officers with rotten fruit and eggs. At the end of the day, eight farm workers, including Patterson, were arrested and brought to trial in Aberdeen for their disorderly behavior, but all were acquitted due to lack of evidence. Meanwhile, the runaway cow was soon found hiding in a nearby barn and taken to Aberdeen for a more organized auction.

The cow was successfully sold, but the residents gathered and bought the cow. Then the cow was shown back to Patterson on January 20, 1914 AD and it was a major public event, and over 3,000 people showed up to watch the cow in Turriff, decorated with ribbons and wreaths of dried flowers, and written (Free!! Divn’t ye wish that ye were me? The cow died six years later and was buried on the Patterson ranch grounds in Lendrum.

The cow died six years later and was buried on one of the Patterson farm grounds in Lendrum, and the cow became the town's emblem for many years, with locals selling memorabilia items shaped like Coo and often decorated with the slogan "Lendrum to Leeks". In 1971, a roadside memorial was unveiled in Lendrum, with a plaque showing a silhouette of a cow's head, and in 2010, a Turra Coo sculpture was unveiled in downtown Turriff, at the intersection of two main shopping streets, a spot now known locally as "Coo Corner".