Drivers steer clear of runaway steer
Drivers steer clear of runaway steer
A runaway steer stopped traffic on a major highway, hurtled over a brick wall and damaged two police vehicles during a Tuesday morning chase that had four Arizona law enforcement agencies scrambling.
It escaped from a livestock trailer Tuesday morning on Interstate 8 just east of Yuma in southeastern Arizona, Yuma County sheriff's Capt. Eben Bratcher said.
The driver of the trailer, which had five other steer inside, was getting on the freeway when he noticed that a side door was ajar. He pulled over but one of his charges got away before he could shut the door.
"It was chaotic," Bratcher said. "It was running around in traffic on the interstate, which is why law enforcement got involved as quickly as it did. There was a lot of us out there chasing this thing around."
He said the steer bounded over one police car and later barreled over a brick wall, knocking some bricks down.
A sheriff's deputy eventually was able to rope the steer from the bed of a pickup about a half-hour after the escape as another deputy drove alongside it.
Bratcher said the nimble steer was uninjured and was returned to its owner, a Yuma man who continued on his trip to take the steer to a feed lot.
Bratcher said the animal was a roping steer, the type often featured at rodeos. At first he thought it was a Texas longhorn.
"It's ornery," he said. "They're not known for their docile nature."
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- Posted on September 21, 2011
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A runaway steer stopped traffic on a major highway, hurtled over a brick wall and damaged two police vehicles during a Tuesday morning chase that had four Arizona law enforcement agencies scrambling.
oh wow yhat is sad i feel really really bad for those people wouldt you feel bad for them people wouldnt you feelbad for them people i know i do. i really do.
hopefully they got it taken care of so it doesn't run around rambunctious through the city. that would be a horrible thing to have happen
Wow that is crazy that a cow was running on the highway. It is a good thing that no one was hurt. Hopefully, this doesn't happen again because the second time someone could be hurt.
That steer really wanted to go somewhere. That must have taken along time trying to get the steer especially when it is lose on the road.
This article was mainly to entertain the reader about a steer running in traffic. The man who owned the steer should now make sure that his doors are securely locked before he takes off. Luckily no one was hurt because the police came just in time and they returned the cattle safely to the owner.
Luckily nobody or cow was hurt in this chaotic event. This reminds me of a Chickfala were the cows pull crazy stunts, this seems exactly like something they would do.
This article was mainly to entertain the reader. The author wrote this article to inter tan us people by telling us a story about a runaway steer. In my opinion i liked the article and thought it was interesting thing to know. I cant believe that the steer damaged 2 cars and was found uninjured.
Luckily nobody or cow was hurt in this chaotic event. This reminds me of a Chickfala were the cows pull crazy stunts, this seems exactly like something they would do.
Evidently the steer needed to run free a little while. If the man owns steers he should know how to rope, so he should have caught it himself.