It was a dreadful plan.
McMahon's proposal, when first outlined, had shocked his men. There might be hitches in working so massive a scheme, but there was a reasonable chance it could be pulled off.
The results were foreseeable. Thousands of cattle, bunched and running blindly, rampaging through the streets could move as devastatingly as a prairie fire.
Rambo was slated to become, literally, a ghost town.