Bull Runs Amok in Gibson County
GIBSON COUNTY, Tenn. – A runaway bull took some Gibson County officers on a wild chase Thursday morning, keeping them busy for hours. The animal’s owner said he just bought the bull from a local stock yard Wednesday, and never expected he would have to deal with anything like this. “I’m going to give him one more chance, and that’s all,” Bobby White said. “If he messes up again, he’s gone.” White has only owned the bull one day, and said he is already proven to be quite the troublemaker. “He’s the only one I’ve ever had to get out,” White said. Gibson County deputies and Trenton police officers spent two hours chasing him about two miles down the Bradford Highway out of Trenton. Dispatchers said they eventually caught him behind a house near a gas company. “A guy roped him with the horse, and put him in a trailer, and brought him back home,” White said. Dispatchers said catching him was not easy. “They were trying to like, you know, get him out of the roadway, or try to get him into a pasture or field, and yeah, he would try to ram the cars,” said Gail Wallace, a Gibson County 911 dispatcher. Dispatchers told WBBJ 7 Eyewitness News they even have to keep lists of residents who own cattle or horses, in case one of them gets loose. “It’s pretty common, but we try to locate the owners as soon as possible and get them out there and get them put back up, and the deputies are real good about going out there and standing by until they can get there,” Wallace said. Despite all the chaos, no one was hurt, including the bull.
