{"id":807576,"date":"2026-08-09T05:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807576\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T05:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T05:06:10","slug":"video-shows-alabama-deputies-wrangling-a-1500-pound-runaway-bull-oversized-escape-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/807576\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows Alabama deputies wrangling a 1,500-pound runaway bull: &#8220;Oversized escape artist&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alabama sheriff&#8217;s deputies and police wrangled a 1,500-pound runaway bull Friday in a foot pursuit across the highway in Pickens County.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Video shows the bull calmly walking in a suburban neighborhood, while additional footage shows three authorities mounted on horses swinging lassos above their heads trying to rein in the animal.<\/p>\n<p>The bull ran away as the ropes got closer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Pickens County Sheriff&#8217;s Office\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/r\/1D2WYAAN5b\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> after &#8220;a few slips and falls,&#8221; the &#8220;oversized escape artist&#8221; was back in custody without any injury. <\/p>\n<p>The deputies said after containing the bull, they were better off &#8220;patrolling the county&#8221; than trying to &#8220;make a living on the rodeo circuit.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll hang our cowboy hats and boots back on the wall at least until the next bull decides to go sightseeing,&#8221; the Pickens County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p>\n                Go deeper with The Free Press\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alabama sheriff&#8217;s deputies and police wrangled a 1,500-pound runaway bull Friday in a foot pursuit across the highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5183,23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-807576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-alabama","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}