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Nov 3, 2006 7:57 pm US/Eastern
Bull Runs Wild Through Newark
by Tamsen Fadal
NEWARK, N.J. (CBS) ―
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The bull was finally captured after a wild morning chase in Newark.
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Chopper 2 was over the scene as the bull was was brought under control.
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It was the running of the bulls in Newark, well at least one bull on South Street, and Chopper 2 was first on the scene. The chase started last night on Frelinghuysen Avenue and ended on South Street.
Denton Infield, with the Humane Society, got the call. "First of all, I thought it was a prank call when they told me they had a bull running in the street, I said no. I didn't believe it until I actually saw it," he said.
A wild bull was corralled in a parking lot on South Street after running through the streets of New Jersey's largest city Friday morning. The bull gave police and animal rescue the run around in the small parking lot, zigzagging around at SUV, even hurdling an air conditioning unit.
"He would take off running everytime we got too close to him," Infield explained.
The bull was finally captured at 114 South St. near Mulberry. Infield, who finally lassoed the bull, said he's no stranger to being an urban cowboy, since he's from South Africa. "We managed to get him into this parking area, we closed it off we lassoed him."
George Ramaro came to see what all the fuss was about. "I heard there was a bull loose in the city of Newark, and I said I had to come over here and find out what was going on and I seen that cow inside the fence and I was like holy cow."
Fay Garrett was upset when she heard that Newark's newest 600-pound visitor may have fallen off a truck on the way to a slaugherhouse.
Garrett told CBS 2's Tamsen Fadal, "I wouldn't like to see anything like that him going to the slaugherhouse. Him or her. The three-year bull was tranquilized after a few hours to calm him down so he could be loaded on a trailer.
The cold weather didn't help, so as he slept he was covered with blankets to keep warm.
Finally, four and a half hours after his capture he was carefully loaded into a trailer, not heading to a slaughterhouse, but instead: the Popcorn Park Zoo.
The Humane Society is waiting to see if anyone comes forward to claim him.
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