As a driver, I have often wondered, “Who is the best kind of person to have ride shotgun?” A story broke last week that has me revaluating. Perhaps the question should be, “What is the best kind of being to have ride shotgun?”
The story began on Aug. 30 when police in Norfolk, Neb. received a report of a car driving around the downtown area with a cow inside it. Norfolk Police Division Capt. Chad Reiman told the, “We were all kind of expecting it to be a smaller animal, like a calf, that would actually fit into a vehicle, not the large animal that we actually discovered there.”
Police in Nebraska made an unusual traffic stop – a vehicle with a giant bull riding in the front passenger seat.Since the incident, I’ve watched numerous videos of Meyers and Howdy Doody on the road. I’ve got to be honest; the enormous Watusi bull seems like better company than a lot of humans I’ve had ride shotgun. I’ll briefly outline some of his qualities:
While Howdy Doody is the first bull to be stopped by the police, there is a long history of animals in the passenger seat. Police in Collingwood, Ont., recently stopped a 47-year-old woman suspected of impaired driving and found awith his dog and then tried to pin a drunk driving charge on his canine. The driver told police his dog had been driving. The dog was not charged, the driver was.