Social media news accounts were snorting excitement on Thursday about a Nebraska cattle producer hauling his Watusi bull in the passenger seat of a tailor-made vehicle.
Police in Norfolk, Nebraska, pulled over Lee Meyer of nearby Neligh after receiving calls about his vehicle – a Ford Taurus, no less – and its massive passenger on U.S. Highway 275, according to reports from News Channel Nebraska.
“The officers received a call referencing a car driving into town that had a cow in it,” said Norfolk police Capt. Chad Reiman. “They thought that it was going to be a calf, something small or something that would actually fit inside the vehicle.”
Reiman said officers performed a routine traffic stop and wrote some warnings, but did not write any citations. Instead they asked him “to take the animal back home and leave the city.”
Meyer’s bull – named Howdy Doody – was seen on video from News Channel Nebraska, with the bull and its massive horns riding shotgun. Officers can be seen chatting with Meyer with Howdy Doody doing his "doody" best to decorate the passenger window.
In online searches, Meyer and Howdy Doody appear to be frequent travelers in Antelope County. One Facebook video shows Meyer driving his famed bull through a July Fourth town parade back in 2019, in the right flank of the vehicle.
Many social media commenters in Nebraska didn’t seem bothered by Meyer and Howdy Doody, chalking the controversy up to just a bunch of bull.
