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Bull wanders into garage, attacks car
By Associated Press
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HEBRON, N.Y. -- A woman pulled into her driveway and spotted something big inside her garage. That something turned out to be a bull. And an angry bull at that.

Mabel Washburn says she drove to a nearby relative's home in rural Washington County to call police after coming face to face with the bull on Wednesday afternoon. When she returned to her home near the Vermont border a few minutes later, the bull was still there.

The 81-year-old woman says the animal then rammed its horns into her Ford Escort a couple of times. She blew her horn at it, but the bull chased the vehicle as she drove away.

She says the bull, which had gotten loose from a nearby pasture, eventually wandered into a swamp.

Sheriff's deputies ticketed the bull's owner for allowing it to get loose.

Washburn says it's not the first time she has found livestock in her driveway. Last fall a horse got loose and wound up on her property.

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Amutt wrote on Apr 30, 2007 4:01 PM:

" Hey I've been in garages where cars would talk crap and sometimes you have to take care of em' "

dont wrote on Apr 28, 2007 3:37 PM:

" be rammin my Ford Escort "

Granny shoulda got.... wrote on Apr 27, 2007 8:23 PM:

" her gun. She certainly knew where the beef was! "

Pink Floyd wrote on Apr 27, 2007 4:30 PM:

" This story sounds like a lot of bull. "
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