Fort Worth has at least two nicknames that I know of. One is "Dirty ol' Town". The other that I know of is "Cowtown". This past weekend Fort Worth lived up to its "Cowtown" nickname.A brown and white Longhorn Bull escaped captivity twice this past weekend. After the first escape, on Saturday, the big bull was caught and returned to its place of residence.
But by Sunday the unnamed Bull had escaped to freedom once more. Some people called police to report that it was one of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's pet Longhorns that had escaped. For some reason not known to me, the Star-Telegram keeps 3 Longhorns, including their mascot, Rusty the Longhorn, at their south Fort Worth publishing plant.
But, the escapee was not one of the newspaper's pets.
When the Longhorn Bull escaped on Sunday it charged at cars on surface streets, with police trying to corner him and attempting to block off traffic. Then he made it on to Loop 820. That is a freeway that circles Fort Worth. He charged back and forth until one unfortunate small car driver was hit. The driver was injured. The Longhorn Bull died at the scene of the accident.
The dead bull's owner showed up at the accident scene where a wrecker loaded the dead Longhorn on to the owner's truck.
The owner of the marauding Longhorn did not get a ticket, despite having been responsible for creating a situation that required a lot of police action and danger to the public. Unlike someone driving ultra-slow in an ultra-quiet Fort Worth residential neighborhood, without clicking their seatbelt.
