Remember the scene in “Blazing Saddles” where Mongo rides his bull down the middle of Rockville? Well life imitated art recently in Alliance, Ohio when a man and his bull showed up outside a Tractor Supply Company much to locals’ surprise.
Reports of a man wearing a cowboy hat was spotted on top of a Brahma bull outside of the Tractor Supply Co. in Alliance, this past Thursday. Police were called and they answered, Sgt. Christopher McCord said, “The bull was very well-behaved and didn’t need any intervention on our part. The store (Tractor Supply) as well as Walmart were very OK with it, so it wasn’t a nuisance.”
Video released from the police department shows an officer astonished by what he was seeing. Officer Ronnie Hook was on patrol when he got a radio call that sounded like total B.S. saying on the patrol cam, “I have so many questions.”
Those questions were quickly answered when Hook rolled up at Tractor Supply, and he was greeted by John Welsh, who was atop a Brahma bull named Gus.
Gus was gentle and seemed used to the attention he was getting as Welsh showed him off to shoppers while passing through town en route to a rodeo in Columbiana, about 25 miles east of Alliance.
No tickets were issued but Officer Hook did take the opportunity to hop on Gus for a photo.
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