US driver pulled over with huge African bull riding shotgun in car
Converted vehicle stopped in Nebraska with gigantic-horned Watusi bovine called Howdy Doody as passenger
Guardian staff
Thu 31 Aug 2023 08.06 EDT
Lee Meyer takes Howdy Doody for a ride through Nebraska. Police said an officer ‘chose to write him a warning and ask him to take the animal back home’. Photograph: News Channel Nebraska
Police in Norfolk, Nebraska, responding to calls of a man driving with a “cow” in his car were stunned to discover a local man with a huge Watusi bull riding shotgun in his vehicle.
“The officers received a call referencing a car driving into town that had a cow in it,” Capt Chad Reiman told News Channel North-East Nebraska. “They thought that it was going to be a calf, something small or something that would actually fit inside the vehicle.”
In fact, the animal was a Watusi bull – a breed of cattle famous in Africa with gigantic horns.
The driver was identified as Lee Meyer of nearby Neligh and police performed a traffic stop on his car. Meyer told them that the Watusi bull’s name was Howdy Doody.
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/bull-car-riding-shotgun-nebraska-watusi
I'm sorry but I have never posted an OP in here before in the 15 years I have been a DUer but when I was perusing The Guardian and saw the headline and the picture, I *HAD* to!
I mean come on! Get a U-Haul or something.
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This will take a minute to clean it up a bit. Now this joke was told to me while motoring across Nebraska back in the day.
There was this guy at a rest area on the Interstate out in the middle of Nebraska, there were a few other vehicles there at the time including a truck loaded with hogs. The driver seemed in a hurry and didn't notice a hole in the trailer where a hog had escaped. He just peed on the tires and got back in, took off.
The guy saw all this and decided he needed to catch the hog and try to get it back to the driver somehow. He spent a good hour trying to corner the hog and then get it tinto his vehicle but he managed and took off chasing after the truck.
Speeding like crazy he gets pulled over. The trooper asked him what was the hurry and what's up with the hog? The guy explains the whole story and the trooper tells him, "Man, that truck is so long gone, you'll never catch it even if I let you speed all the way across the state. But I'll tell you what, if you take that hog to the zoo, I'll let you go without a warning." The guy readily agrees and the trooper lets him go.
A few weeks later the trooper is going down the road and he sees the guy, with hog in the front seat wearing a baseball cap! The trooper pulls him over to see what that's about. The guy cheerily greets the trooper who is perplexed.
Trooper looks thing over and says, "Thought I told you to take the hog to the zoo."
The guy responds, "Oh, yes I did! And we had such a good time, I'm taking him to the ball game today!"
