Kicker: Steering into traffic

NICK EICHER, HOST: You’ve heard the expression bull in a china shop. The word picture is meant to convey the idea of clumsy or reckless behavior.

But one particular bull riding shotgun in a Ford Crown Vic, just heading down a highway in Nebraska several days ago, was neither clumsy nor reckless.

And yet the police got a call to investigate a cow in a car.

REIMAN: They thought it was gonna be, you know, like a calf or something smaller, something that actually fit inside the vehicle.

But you know, it did actually fit, basically, somewhat inside the vehicle. It was an old police car retrofitted to accommodate a half-ton bull, the bulk of the animal towering well above the roofline.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Un-bull-ievable!

EICHER: Although, you know, the driver could still steer.

REIMAN: The officer chose to write him a warning and ask him to take the animal back home, and to leave the city.

In other words, you better be moooo-ving on.

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