It was nothing in comparison to the Monday that Animal Control in Paterson, NJ had when a 1,400 pound bull escaped slaughter to RAMPAGE through a light traffic, non-residential area. Apparently officers lassoed the bull in an effort to contain it and sedate it. This didn’t turn out to be the greatest idea because the bull just dragged them ten blocks. Apparently Animal Control needs to step up their training programs because even Billy Crystal would have been able to contain one bull.
Once they finally contained the bull, it was returned to the slaughterhouse where it was presumably slaughtered. If the bull was ultimately going to be slaughtered anyways, why not just shoot it in the first place? Is Paterson, NJ really that boring? Shouldn’t the cops be solving murders or something? If there are no crimes that require solving in NJ it’s only a thirty minute drive to NY; I’m sure they could be of some assistance there.
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Bad publicity is better than no publicity. They should have shot the bull.
Easier to move a bull on its feet than a dead weight bull…it may not go where you want it to, when you want it to, but it is a body in motion vs. a dead body at rest.
It would also take a fairly serious weapon with serious stopping power to take down a bull. Firing a weapon like that, even in a “non-residential” area isn’t a simple, given task.
If it was easier to just shoot bulls where they stood instead of moving them to more convenient places for slaughter, we’d just used a .50 caliber machine gun to take them down in the feedlot….
your obviously not from the east coast because Paterson New Jersey is one of the biggest crime ridden cities in the country, hence not making it boring at all. There is just no point to shoot a bull in the head when its casually walking around, try to get your facts straight before posting stuff boss man taylor.
You obviously never read this article. http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime_courts/Man_accused_of_shooting_Paterson_police_officers_arrested.html The cops there can’t shoot plain and simple. Better off trying to wrangle the bull than have one of those idiots miss by 20ft again.