Howdy Doody – The Weird Side of the Internet
Written by Staff on September 23, 2024
Howdy Doody – The Weird Side of the Internet – by Liam Sweeny.
I usually like to sum up these little tales. I am no lazy journalist. And let’s face it, most journalists have to put their own brand of polish on the facts that the first reporter pulled from the scene of the crime. We’re all just spin doctors. But I don’t think any amount of spin and spit I put on this will make it better, so for the facts of the matter, I bring you the strory itself, found in a Top Ten Listverse article:
“At approximately 10:05 am on August 30, 2023, officers in Norfolk, Nebraska, were dispatched on a call for a “vehicle with a cow inside” rolling through the town. While police assumed the bovine passenger would be a small calf that would actually fit inside the vehicle, what they discovered was anything but small.
Officers located Lee Meyers riding down US-257 with his enormous 2,200-pound (997-kilogram) half-Longhorn, half-Watusi African bull riding shotgun in a 1996 Ford Crown Victoria. The car’s roof on the passenger side had been removed so the animal could fit, and there was a yellow barrier on the side of the vehicle to keep the bull inside.
The bull, whose name is Howdy Doody, is a regular attraction at parades and fairs throughout the state, and the two were actually on their way to another small-town parade when they were stopped in Norfolk.
Norfolk Police Captain Chad Reiman stated that despite the citable issues with the situation, the officer wrote Meyers some warnings and asked him to take Howdy Doody back home to the city of Neligh.[5]”
There. That felt good.
Where do you bring a 2,200 pound bull? Anywhere it wants to go. But in this case Neligh, Nebraska, And a good thing it isn’t true that the color red makes bulls freak out, or there would have been a few speeding tickets thrown in.
Howdy Doody, ha!
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