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Lumbering bull on the loose in Roslindale

By adamg on Sat, 06/22/2024 - 12:44pm

Boston Police and Animal Control responded to American Legion Highway near the Walgreens and Flaming Grill buffet around 7:20 this morning on reports of a bull that had been wandering around there until some people in a UHaul chased it up into the woods of Crane Ledge next door.

Police left around 7:50 a.m. after confirming there was, indeed, a bull loose in the woods up there, but that Animal Control would continue the pursuit.

In the Keep Roslindale Quirky Facebook group, somebody reported spotting it last night on Hyde Park Avenue near Pagel Playground on the line between Roslindale and Jamaica Plain - which is normally home to Boston's only free-range bulls, but up at Allandale Farm, on the other side of the neighborhood - not to mention the Amtrak/commuter-rail train tracks and the Centre Street parkway..

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American Legion Highway


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Comments

By anonymous coward on Sat, 06/22/2024 - 12:54pm.

There's a lot at steak here

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By MJF on Sat, 06/22/2024 - 1:27pm.

I'm questioning whether this is actually a bull (male, intact). I think it's more likely to be a steer (male, fixed), or cow (female). Bulls are much more likely to be dangerous and difficult to rustle than steers or cows. Note that Curtis and Willard at Allandale are steers, not bulls.

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By b from Ros on Sat, 06/22/2024 - 7:21pm.

N/t

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By chaosjake on Sat, 06/22/2024 - 2:01pm.

Back in Ye Olden Tymes, the division 14 police station in Brighton kept heavy ammo on hand to deal with rampaging escapees from the stockyards.

'The Boston Police were called in on escaped cattle at least five times between 1936 and 1954. The Division 14 police station in Brighton kept special heavier shotshells in inventory to load their shotguns with when these escapes happen. D-14 referred to the file noting instances where animals were shot as “the cowboy files.”' (Podcast)

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By adamg on Sat, 06/22/2024 - 2:22pm.

So it can meet up with the pig that lives near the quarry and they can become best friends and go on adventures and fight crime.

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By anon on Sat, 06/22/2024 - 4:01pm.

There"s a lot we don"t know.

By SwirlyGrrl on Sat, 06/22/2024 - 9:21pm.
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By Will LaTulippe on Sun, 06/23/2024 - 6:17pm.

That we've all forgotten as adults.

If someone doesn't seek confrontation, leave them the (expletive) alone. It's not hard.

By cinnamngrl on Sun, 06/23/2024 - 8:11am.

where are the pics?