People planning to trip from Newark Penn Station into New York Metropolis bought a shock this morning when a free bull confirmed up on the tracks. His presence induced 45-minute delays as police tried to corral the massive bovine with out anybody getting harm, NBC New York studies.

After working via Penn Station, the bull headed again towards the airport earlier than Newark and Port Authority law enforcement officials had been capable of corral it inside a fenced-in lot. The place the bull got here from and the way it bought free are nonetheless unknown. He’s fortunate he didn’t get hit by a practice whereas enjoying on the tracks like that. The bull was captured safely and must be simply high quality, although, as an area animal sanctuary might be taking him in.

As NBC New York studies, this isn’t the primary time a bull has gotten free within the larger New York Metropolis space. Again in 2021, a bull that didn’t like the concept of turning into somebody’s steak dinner escaped in Lengthy Island and managed to evade authorities for 2 months earlier than lastly being caught. The 1,500-pound bull ended up being nicknamed Barney by customers on social media as he continued to dodge makes an attempt to seize him.

“We’ve tried luring him with a cow, with horses,” Robust Island Animal Rescue’s Frankie Floridia advised Newsday on the time. “I’m out right here with a [tranquilizer gun], on the lookout for him, and I’m considering, ‘I’m searching cows in an Indiana Jones film.’ It’s simply irritating. The longer it goes, you surprise what occurs.”

Again in 2017 one other bull bought free, this time in Brooklyn, and headed into Prospect Park to wander the soccer fields. Sadly, he couldn’t persuade anybody to hitch a pick-up sport and ended up tranquilized after different makes an attempt to seize him failed. Whereas the 2 different bulls by no means injured anybody of their escapes, this one ended up bumping right into a stroller laborious sufficient that the two-year-old inside was injured and brought to the hospital to be handled for a minor harm. Skylands Animal Sanctuary and Rescue took him in and named him Shankar.