Posted on 11/02/2005 6:04:14 AM PST by xzins
Overturned Cattle Trailer Shuts Down Highway
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Reported by: Jenell Walton Web produced by: Liz Foreman Photographed by: Dave Marlo First posted: 11/2/2005 8:27:45 AM A major highway is shut down Wednesday morning due to an overturned cattle truck.
Click for the photo gallery Around 4 a.m., a truck carrying live cattle overturned on I-74 Westbound near the I-275 split in Whitewater Township, shutting down the highway.
I-74 is shut down in both directions between Indiana and Dry Fork, and is expected to be shut down until at least noon.
Of the 40 live cattle in the truck, some died, and about 25 head are still on the loose - running on the highway, side streets and nearby wooded areas - as of 8:30 a.m.
Crews have spent the past several hours trying to round up the live animals. Initial attempts were deterred by a heavy fog, which is now lifting.
"Normally, herded cattle stay together, however we have a couple of bulls that are kind of cantankerous...We might have to dart them to get them under control," said Harold Dates of the SPCA, who is on the scene.
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There is still more Bull$h*t in Washington than on that highway.
He deserves a "gunslinger" award! Cowpoke with a quick ZOT! 
Although, I do remember a "traffic" article about a bridge in NY a year or so ago that stayed "breaking" for some time.
But....Ohio is flyover country. :>)
Sounds like this is a pretty high steaks clean up operation.... and that's no bull!
LOL!
This actually happened to my parents in the 1950's in Los Angeles, except that they forgot to close the gate on the cattle truck and lost them as they drove down the freeway.
How'd they round 'em up? Or was the step out to freedom a step of death?
Most of them lived. Mom and Dad basically just backed up on the freeway and rounded them up. Of course this was before the traffic that LA has to deal with now. There was a ramp on the truck, so the cattle loaded up and were promptly taken to the auction, no more worse for the wear.
I guess those steaks ended up pre-tenderized.
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