Oversteer: Nebraska cops pull over automobile with bull within the passenger seat

There isn’t any scarcity of previous Ford Crown Victorias rolling round with a suspicious lean, however one Nebraska driver discovered the arduous means simply how a lot B.S. the Norfolk Police Division will tolerate in relation to correct loading of a automobile. In keeping with Information Channel Nebraska, Lee Meyer of Neligh, Neb., was pulled over Wednesday morning for cruising down U.S. 275 with an grownup bull within the passenger seat … and on the hood, and maybe a part of the roof. Hey, these seats have been constructed for Individuals with two legs, not 4. Lower him some slack. 

“The officers obtained a name referencing a automobile driving into city that had a cow in it,” Norfolk Police Division Captain Chad Reiman instructed the outlet. “They thought that it was going to be a calf, one thing small or one thing that will really match contained in the automobile.”

As a substitute, what they discovered was an grownup bovine — a Watusi bull, to be exact. In keeping with native feedback on the story, the bull’s title is Howdy Doody and he is a fixture of native occasions, and seeing him experience shotgun with Meyer isn’t uncommon. 

In keeping with Oklahoma State College, a completely grown Watusi bull can weigh 1,000 to 1,600 kilos. By itself, that is not essentially regarding. A mid-’90s Ford Crown Victoria ought to have a gross automobile weight score someplace north of 5,000 kilos.

Keep in mind, this stuff have been engineered to carry a minimum of two cops and all of their discipline gear; they’re fairly sturdy. With a light-weight sufficient driver, it is attainable that the automobile was nonetheless underneath its protected hauling restrict, however that is not a wager we would take simply eyeballing it. No matter his weigh-in outcomes, Meyer was issued a warning earlier than being instructed to pack up and go away city.