NEW YORK -- A bull that got loose in Queens Tuesday morning was finally captured several hours later in the backyard of a home, police said.
The runaway bull, who escaped from a slaughterhouse, was spotted by the corner of Archer and Sutphin avenues at about 10:20 a.m.
The bull was cornered just over an hour later in the yard of a home on Marsden Street in South Jamaica but then ran again. The bull was finally corralled and tranquilized in the backyard of a home near 115th Avenue and 158th Street, police said.
It was not immediately clear what would ultimately happen to the freedom-seeking bull.
This was not the first time a cow got loose in the city.
In January 2016, a black and white cow escaped from a slaughterhouse in Queens and then was subsequently rescued by the Skylands Animal Sanctuary And Rescue in Wantage, New Jersey. The cow was renamed Freddie.
And in April, Jon Stewart and his wife Tracy picked up a cow that escaped a truck set to bring it to a slaughterhouse also in Queens.
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