Global Courant 2023-05-23 04:02:39
An escaped bull named Lester was attacked Sunday on northbound Interstate 75 in Holly, Michigan. The bovine was reportedly on the run for weeks before being caught. Lester was cornered by four people – one of whom was on horseback – and lassoed before attempting to jump a guardrail and cross the track southbound. is back in the pasture with a story to tell all the other cattle,” the Michigan State Police Twitter account jokingly noted.
A team of brawlers – including one on horseback – pursued and captured a wayward ox named Lester across several lanes of a Detroit freeway.
In-car video from state police shows the end of Sunday afternoon’s chase on northbound Interstate 75 in Holly, about 57 miles northwest of Detroit.
A rider on horseback and three people in two ATVs can chase Lester in and around fields and woods along the east side of the highway, while the state police car slowly follows him into the shoulder.
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At one point, Lester races up close to a group of trees towards the highway lanes and is quickly cut off by one of the ATVs before running into traffic behind the vehicle. Three vehicles pass the wheel as it moves into the northbound lanes.
A runaway ox named “Lester” was captured Sunday on Interstate 75 in Holly, Michigan.
The rider on horseback overtakes and lassos Lester, who then drives into the median and jumps a guardrail onto the south shoulder of the highway before it is stopped.
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“Finally, after much craziness (sic), the critter was caught and removed from the highway,” state police wrote on the agency’s Twitter page. “Troopers reopened the highway and everything quickly returned to normal. The cattle was not charged and is back in the pasture with a story to tell all the other cattle.”
Lester had been on the run for several weeks from a ranch where Lester and four other cattle had been rehomed after they escaped from pens at an animal shelter in Rose Township, said Bill Mullan, an Oakland County spokesman.
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Another agency called in handlers who initially captured the group, but Lester escaped again and was on the loose until his recapture on Sunday.
