A bull loose in New Jersey’s largest city made its way onto railroad tracks, disrupting rail traffic Thursday before being captured, authorities said.
The reddish-brown bull with long, dark-tipped horns stood on the tracks at Newark’s Penn Station, prompting a police response and halting train traffic between New Jersey and New York’s Penn Station for nearly an hour. hour, according to New Jersey Transit.
Police eventually cornered the animal in a fenced lot about 3 miles (4.8 kilometers) from the station, according to a statement from Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé. The bull will be sent to a local animal sanctuary, Fragé said.
No injuries were reported, the director said.
It was not immediately clear exactly how the bull was released, who owned it and other details about the bull’s ride through Newark.
It was not the first time a bull was loose in Newark.
In 2006, it took authorities 10 hours to capture a bull that wandered through the city, according to NBC News. Two years earlier, a steer escaped from a slaughterhouse and wandered around Newark before being captured and sent to a sanctuary, NBC reported.
2023-12-14 21:13:00
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