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a bull lost in a bustling stretch of Jamaica, Queens, the green lawn
outside a school building was probably the closest thing to a pasture.
That, at least, was one theory floated about on …
For
a bull lost in a bustling stretch of Jamaica, Queens, the green lawn
outside a school building was probably the closest thing to a pasture.
That,
at least, was one theory floated about on Friday after the black and
white Angus, which had been raised on a farm upstate, escaped from a
nearby holding area for livestock, officials said.
The
authorities said that just after 10 a.m. a caller reported an escaped
cow racing down Liberty Avenue near 160th Street. It went from the
streets to the campus of York College, officials said. There, students
and passers-by took pictures and videos, posting them on Snapchat and Instagram.
Within a half-hour, the bull was corralled on the lawn of the college’s classroom building. One bystander captured on video the moment it was cornered by the police and lassoed.
Jon Stewart, a Bull’s Savior
A bull that escaped on Friday in
Jamaica, Queens, was rescued from the slaughterhouse after Jon Stewart
and his wife, Tracey, took it to Farm Sanctuary’s shelter in Watkins
Glen, N.Y.
By FARM SANCTUARY on Publish Date April 1, 2016.
New York City has a long history of livestock on the loose, as does Jamaica.
In
January, just a few blocks away from the college, a cow managed to
break free from a slaughterhouse. Calls to 911 poured in reporting a
“cow on the run,” the authorities said. That bovine escapee was caught
at a parking garage; the police at the time released a picture of its
“perp walk” into a trailer. It was sent to a sanctuary in New Jersey,
and given the name Freddie, after Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of
Queen. Similar escapes had been reported in the area in 2009 and 2011.
And last month near Times Square, visitors got the additional spectacle of a police horse,
free of its rider, galloping through Midtown Manhattan. The horse,
Gunny, was spooked by a sudden sound from a nearby truck, and tossed off
the officer.
Gunny, the police said, was quickly sent back to active duty.
In other livestock escapes, the animals were returned to their owners.
The latest animal has a better ending.
On Friday, officials said the bovine had been taken to an Animal Care Centers of NYC in Brooklyn.
Staff
members from the center talked with the owner, a cattle rancher from
Monticello, N.Y., and started pulling together money in case they needed
to buy it and spare it from slaughter, said Katy Hansen, a spokeswoman
for the group. The group ultimately did not pay for the bull, she said.
By afternoon, it was loaded up again. He was picked up by the comedian Jon Stewart
and his wife, Tracey, to take to Farm Sanctuary’s shelter in Watkins
Glen, N.Y, according to Farm Sanctuary, an animal rescue group that
operates several shelters. But before it left, Ms. Hansen said, the
staff members had given it a name: Frank Lee, for Frank Lee Morris, the
prisoner who, in 1962, escaped from Alcatraz.
Correction: April 1, 2016
An earlier version of this article misstated how the Animal Care Centers of NYC in Brooklyn acquired the bull after it was captured. Staff members at the center started to pull together money to buy the bull, but the group ultimately did not pay for it.
An earlier version of this article misstated how the Animal Care Centers of NYC in Brooklyn acquired the bull after it was captured. Staff members at the center started to pull together money to buy the bull, but the group ultimately did not pay for it.
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