Sunday, April 05, 2015

Police helped round up Big Boy the runaway buffalo

A buffalo that ran away from home on Friday has been recaptured after being chased by police in Texas through a residential area.



Round Rock Police shot video of the runaway buffalo while they helped the Williamson County Sheriff's Dept. try to round him up. Owner Joe Don Kotrla-Chipps,or J.D., says his buffalo's name is Big Boy.

Kotrla-Chipps says Big Boy first started jumping his fence a few days ago. He's had to go find him several times since then. But on Friday morning Big Boy decided to take a run through the neighbourhood.


YouTube link.

Big Boy was eventually returned home. Williamson County Sheriff's Office say they gave J.D. a citation for violating the "Open range act." J.D. says this weekend someone is coming to take Big Boy for about a week while he builds a bigger and better fence.

With additional news video.

1 comment:

Ratz said...

There's quite a good 2003 film called "open range". It'd been ages since I'd seen a good cowboy movie.