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No kidding, it really was no bull.
A black angus-mix female cow, weighing a little more than 1,000 pounds, got loose from its trailer on Dr. Russell Smith Way in front of Mercy McCune-Brooks Hospital around noon on Friday.
Richard Staples, a rural Carthage farmer, said his son was transporting the cow from one field to another in a stock trailer.
Zach Staples said he wasn’t sure how the cow got out of the trailer, but somehow it ended up, scared and mad, on the road near the busy U.S. Highway 71.
Officials scrambled to keep the big animal from getting on to the four-lane road and causing a potentially tragic car crash.
Carthage Ambulance workers responded and used their ambulances to intercept the cow in the ditch between the outer road and the southbound ramp from Fir Road on to U.S. 71.
The cow made its way back to the grassy yard in front of the hospital where Jasper County Sheriff’s Animal Control Officer Keith Maggard hit it with two darts from a tranquilizer gun.
Carthage Animal Control Officer Ryan Antwiller, along with Sheriff’s deputies, ambulance workers, Richard Staples and Zach Staples worked to keep the cow from getting to the highway before it finally got drowsy and fell to the ground.
The Staples eventually brought more ropes and the officers and ambulance workers pulled together and dragged it into the stock trailer.
Antwiller said he cited the Staples for animal becoming a public nuisance. The cow suffered minor scrapes, but was otherwise unharmed.
No kidding, it really was no bull.
A black angus-mix female cow, weighing a little more than 1,000 pounds, got loose from its trailer on Dr. Russell Smith Way in front of Mercy McCune-Brooks Hospital around noon on Friday.
Richard Staples, a rural Carthage farmer, said his son was transporting the cow from one field to another in a stock trailer.
Zach Staples said he wasn’t sure how the cow got out of the trailer, but somehow it ended up, scared and mad, on the road near the busy U.S. Highway 71.
Officials scrambled to keep the big animal from getting on to the four-lane road and causing a potentially tragic car crash.
Carthage Ambulance workers responded and used their ambulances to intercept the cow in the ditch between the outer road and the southbound ramp from Fir Road on to U.S. 71.
The cow made its way back to the grassy yard in front of the hospital where Jasper County Sheriff’s Animal Control Officer Keith Maggard hit it with two darts from a tranquilizer gun.
Carthage Animal Control Officer Ryan Antwiller, along with Sheriff’s deputies, ambulance workers, Richard Staples and Zach Staples worked to keep the cow from getting to the highway before it finally got drowsy and fell to the ground.
The Staples eventually brought more ropes and the officers and ambulance workers pulled together and dragged it into the stock trailer.
Antwiller said he cited the Staples for animal becoming a public nuisance. The cow suffered minor scrapes, but was otherwise unharmed.
