Bull in a traffic stop: US man pulled over because of unusual passenger
- Officers got an emergency call about the animal, named Howdy Doody, sitting in a modified car that had half its windscreen and roof removed
- Driver Lee Meyer was left off with a warning and told to take the bull home
A car driving with a bull in it was pulled over by police in northeast Nebraska’s biggest city.
Don’t worry, he didn’t steer.
Norfolk Police Captain Chad Reiman said it didn’t take long for officers to track down the modified Ford Crown Victoria sedan with a bull riding shotgun after an emergency call about it driving on the main highway entering the city of roughly 24,000 Wednesday morning.
“We didn’t have a full understanding of it until we saw it,” Reiman said.
The car that Lee Meyer has driven in parades across the area for years has half the windscreen and roof removed to make room for his bull, named Howdy Doody, to ride along. A yellow metal cattle gate serves as the passenger side door – allowing for the Watusi bull to be tied up – and a set of longhorns serves as an ornament on the car bonnet.