1,400-pound bull drags officers down NJ street

[Zomby Woof]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_bull_on_the_loose

PATERSON, N.J. – Police say a 1,400-pound bull that escaped from a northern New Jersey slaughterhouse dragged officers with a lasso down a street and ran 10 blocks before being captured and sedated. Chief John DeCando, spokesman for Paterson Police's animal control division, says the bull was being unloaded at ENA Meat Packing Inc. when it broke loose just before 8:30 a.m. Monday.

Police tried to corral the bull by lassoing a rope around the animal's neck, but it dragged officers down the street instead.

DeCando says traffic was light during the bull run. He says the area where the officers were dragged was not residential or near a school.

Officers finally corralled the animal and DeCando was able to sedate it.

No injuries were reported. The bull was returned to the slaughterhouse.

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Note the gratuitous Civil War pun in the story. :eyes: I love a clever reporter!

Too bad about the bull. Got to give him credit for the effort.

[Skittles]

1. WTF

that bull should have been retired to a nice field - he won his freedom fair and square

[ThomCat]

8. I agree.

:)

[Orsino]

2. It's official. The recession is over. n/t

[NJmaverick]

3. I am sure he is the first NJ officer to have to deal with a live stock incident

in decades.

[sarge43]

4. Let's see. You weigh at best 200lbs; bull weighs close to a ton.

You try to hold bull with a rope around his neck when bull has made it quite plain he wanted to be elsewhere.

Good plan, officer, clearly you thought it through. I bet you burn, then pillage, too and shoes first, then pants.

:eyes:

[KamaAina]

5. That reporter must be a Yankee

Down South, that would read "DeCando says traffic was light during the mamassas." :P

[Zomby Woof]

6. *snarf*

Never take a Civil War joke for Grant-ed!

[joeybee12]

7. Poor bull! He deserves a medal and freedom! n/t

[doc03]

9. I would have loved to see that, all those COPs

being dragged down the street, that had to be hilarious.