Runaway steer ‘Lester’ wrangled on Michigan freeway


  • An escaped steer named Lester was wrangled on northbound Interstate 75 in Holly, Michigan, on Sunday. The bovine was reportedly on the lam for weeks earlier than being caught.
  • Lester was cornered by 4 folks — one among whom was on horseback — and lassoed earlier than he tried to leap a guardrail and cross into the southbound lane.
  • “The bovine was not charged and is again within the pasture with a narrative to inform all the opposite livestock,” the Michigan State Police’s Twitter account famous in jest.

A group of wranglers — together with one on horseback — chased down and captured a wayward steer named Lester throughout a number of lanes of a Detroit-area freeway.

State police in-car video exhibits the tail-end of Sunday afternoon’s chase on northbound Interstate 75 in Holly, about 57 miles northwest of Detroit.

A rider on horseback and three folks in two ATVs might be seen chasing Lester in and round fields and woods alongside the east facet of the freeway because the state police automotive follows slowly behind on the shoulder.

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At one level, Lester races from close to a clump of timber towards the freeway lanes and is shortly minimize off by one of many ATVs earlier than working behind the automobile and into visitors. Three automobiles go the steer because it runs into the northbound lanes.

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A runaway steer named “Lester” was captured Sunday on Interstate 75 in Holly, Michigan.

The rider on horseback catches up and lassos Lester, which then runs into the median and hops a guardrail onto the freeway’s southbound shoulder earlier than it’s stopped.

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“Ultimately after a lot tom foolery [sic], the critter was captured and faraway from the freeway,” the state police wrote on the company’s Twitter web page. “Troopers reopened the freeway and issues shortly received again to regular. The bovine was not charged and is again within the pasture with a narrative to inform all the opposite livestock.”

Lester had been on the lam for a number of weeks from a ranch the place Lester and 4 different bovine had been relocated after escaping from pens at an animal rescue facility in Rose Township, mentioned Invoice Mullan, a spokesperson for Oakland County.

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One other company known as in wranglers who initially captured the group, however Lester escaped once more and was on the free till his recapture Sunday.

Peter Johnson