Upper Peninsula Police Turn Bull Wranglers – Looks like a steer – JT’s image looks like you can see its breath
ABC10 (WBUP/WBKP TV) Sports Director Jerry “JT” Taylor grabs exclusive footage of the big bad steer at the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming while rest of regular Upper Peninsula media (TV and newspaper) was sleeping or gone for weekend. Scroll down for more info on JT’s rodeo. Imagine the poor cops and firefighters who tackle this 1,500 pound behemoth. Hope it doesn’t end up steak.
(Above Video still by Jerry “JT” Taylor)
WOW !! Congrats to Jerry “JT” Taylor with ABC 10 WBUP/WBKP TV 5 & 10 in Ishpeming for getting the best of the best footage of the 1,500 Pound Bull that took up home at the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame! And he’s a sports dude who jumped on a news story – and is respected by the cops!
Bull – Hell it’s Steer!
Midnight Rodeo in Ishpeming: Police respond to bull on the loose
Jerry “JT” Taylor
Sports Director
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Jerry “JT” Taylor is the Sports Director at ABC10 – CW5. He’s a graduate of Central Michigan University. At CMU, he studied Broadcast and Cinematic Arts and Journalism.
And JT’s info is on the Associated Press across the nation!
Upper Peninsula authorities wrangle escaped bull
August 9, 2014
Associated Press
ISHPEMING, Mich. (AP) — Authorities say they safely captured a 1,500-pound bull that was on the loose in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula near the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame.
WBUP/WBKP-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1sob2Px ) Ishpeming police responded just before 11 p.m. Friday to a call about the bull. Police Chief Dan Wiley says the animal was “skittish.” Police were able to keep the bull from running and a local veterinarian eventually helped get it into a trailer.
Willey says it took about two hours to capture the bull. He says they were “trying to get a rope around its horns or its head and it wouldn’t really let us do that.”
Willey says it wasn’t immediately known how the bull got loose or where it came from.
Information from: WBKP-TV, http://www.wbkp.com
OK – here is the stuff U.P. Breaking news (me) Greg Peterson – shot – we got a pretty good shot of the bull being slid into the trailer – but not the HORNS – Go TJ!
By Greg Peterson, Upper Peninsula Breaking News
(Ishpeming, Michigan) – An escaped bull cow romped around the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming early this morning – the outside thankfully – before being corralled by police from several agencies plus a vet, and a local pony riding business.
About 11 p.m. Friday night (8-8-14), motorists reported a large bull cow was crossing U.S. 41 in the city of Ishpeming – at the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame.
Ishpeming Police, Ishpeming Fire Department, Michigan State Police, Negaunee Police and the Marquette County Sheriff’s Department spent over two hours trying to corral the 1,500 pound Bull – with big horns.
A crowd of about 50 people gathered and clapped once the police and firefighters captured the 1,500 pound bull and got it inside the horse trailer – where it thrashed a few times before settling down.
“After about two hours here, we did get ropes around it and got it on its side and got its legs tied,” said Chief Willey adding the bull’s horns were about “a foot to foot and a half long.”
“It had big sharp horns,” Willey said..
Around 11 o’clock one of my guys (police officers) called me and said they had a bull up on U.S.-41 by the ski hall of fame,” said Ishpeming Police Department Chief Dan Willey. “I asked him – a bull moose – and they said ‘no a bull’.”
“After about two hours here, we did get ropes around it and got it on its side and got its legs tied,” Chief Willey said. “We have no idea where it came from.”
“Basically it took us two hours to get the rope around its horns – and its head – and it wouldn’t really let us do it,” Chief Willey said.
“We tried to get a rope around it to hopefully get it into a trailer,” Willey said about 1:30 this morning (Sat., August 9, 2014).
“After about two hours here, we did get ropes around it and got it on its side and got its legs tied and its head held down and put it into a horse trailer,” Chief Willey said.
One plan involved herding the bull back across the highway and – down second street north of the highway – into the fenced off Ishpeming Cemetery – but the bull made the big decisions.
“It had a mind of its own and it was going to go where it wanted to go,” Chief Willey said.
Several police officers could be seen petting the bull on its side while it laid in the grass about to be carried and pushed into the horse trailer.
“It was skittish – the guys were able to touch it a little bit,” Willey said. “But (initially) it really didn’t let us get a rope around it – but with the help of the state police and the sheriff’s department and Negaunee PD – they basically tackled it and put it to the ground, tied its legs off and held its head down,” Chief Willey said.
“A bunch of our officers jumped on it and got it knocked over on its side,” the chief said of the uninjured bull.
The capture happened along a hilly grassy slope behind the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame, Chief Willey said. “We’re going to go and untie it and let it loose in a corral” in Ishpeming.
Iron ore train tracks atop an embankment and two narrow overpasses leading to downtown Ishpeming hampered the bull’s attempt to escape further.
Shortly after arriving on scene, police called a veterinarian who called a local business that owned a horse trailer.
“She (the vet) called me to get our horse trailer and I tried to help,” said Bill Richards, owner of Pound House Ponies in Ishpeming – a business that provide pony rides on carts, sleighs and out on trails.
“It was standing up and in good shape,” said Richards of the bull that he hauled from the scene and dropped off at the nearby vets home.
The strange call left police officers with smiles on their faces.
“It’s kind of odd, I’ve never seen a farm animal like this before – we’ve had horses out here, we had a mother moose and her two babies (Oct. 7, 2008) – and that didn’t end well,” Chief Willey said.
Ishpeming police were criticized when a previous chief gave the order to kill the cow moose – leaving her babies motherless. Then Ishpeming Police Chief Jim Bjorne said he had to make the call because people were chasing the moose and her calves with cameras.
“My goal was not to hurt the animal and not to get anyone else hurt here,” Willey said.
U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming, MI
www.facebook.com/pages/US-Ski-Snowboard-Hall-of-Fame-and-Museum/129988530386190
http://ishpemingcity.org/our-city/visitor-information/u-s-national-ski-hall-of-fame-museum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Ski_Hall_of_Fame
Pound House Ponies
Cart, Sleigh, Trail Rides
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pond-House-Ponies/127522580655310
Bill Richards, owner
906-360-0212
Pound House Ponies
2115 Olmsted Lane
8 am – 8 pm
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