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Daily Mail
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
It's a moo-torbike! Bizarre moment bull steals a scooter and takes it for a spin
This is the bizarre moment an brazen bull steals a motorbike in broad daylight before taking it for a spin. Hilarious footage shows the opportunistic animal sauntering down a road in Rishikesh, India, and stumbling upon the parked scooter. The bull then goes over to inspect the vehicle, giving it a sniff as a passing mother, startled by the stray animal, grabs her child and gives it a wide berth. In an apparent attempt to mount the scooter, the randy beast put its front hooves on it but its weight knocked away the kickstand. The bike is then suddenly propelled forward. It starts to roll down the hill with the animal desperately trying to keep it under control with its hind legs. It gives the impression the bovine is skillfully manoeuvring the scooter. But unable to see where it was going, the bull heads straight into a fence where the bike falls to the ground. The confused animal looks around the street before continuing on its way. The bizarre joyride was filmed in the city of Rishikesh, located in the Himalayan foothills beside the Ganges River, in northern India on May 2. One local said: 'Bro, he isn't stealing it, the bull has another plan in mind.' Dhiren remarked: 'The owner's insurance company would have never believed him if not for this video.' Ravi added: 'Sometimes you need to try something new in life, even if it's just a scooter ride.' The clip was posted on X (formerly Twitter) with a humorous Hindi caption that translates to, 'You've probably seen people stealing scooters many times, but the case of scooter theft in Rishikesh is a bit different. 'Here, even the stray bulls roaming the streets have a fondness for bikes and scooters.' The video since gone viral, racking up 560,000 views and sparking a wave of amused reactions. One person joked: 'If I didn't see it, I wouldn't Bullieve it.' 'It was a Cow-asaki!', added another. A third said: 'How to explain this to insurance, without CCTV.' Local residents have urged the government to restrict the movement of cattle that roam freely in the region. India has hundreds of thousands of bulls roaming its streets. It is partly due to devout locals who follow Hindu customs, with cows regarded as sacred animals that cannot be eaten or slaughtered once they have stopped producing milk. The majority of states ban the sale or slaughter of cows. Instead of dealing with the economic burden of keeping their spent cattle, many farmers let the beasts roam the streets - leading to chaos when the animals become agitated.
The Independent
13-05-2025
- General
- The Independent
A teenage bullfighting enthusiast celebrates victories in Bosnia
Like most girls her age, Bosnian teenager Mirnesa Junuzovic splits her days into free time and time reserved for school and house chores. How she spends the former, however, makes her quite unique. The 15-year-old Junuzovic takes daily, hourslong walks with her bull, Cobra, and trains the beast for traditional bullfights that have been organized in the country for more than two centuries. 'We walk for three or more hours every day, I talk to him and call him by different nicknames that I have for him,' Junuzovic said, adding: 'I can always anticipate when he is going to rush or scrape at the ground.' Junuzovic believes that she and Cobra share a special bond and insists that while they train and walk through the fields and forest around her rural home on the outskirts of Kakanj, the bull sometimes uses its horns to move tree branches and shrubs out of her way. When somebody else approaches him, Junuzovic insisted, 'his whole demeanor changes' and he starts snorting. 'But he never acts like that with me,' she rushed to say. "He knows that I take care of him. He is just like a human, except that he cannot talk.' Bullfights in Bosnia are relatively mellow and bloodless affairs resembling a natural clash for dominance between male bulls in the wild. Almost every weekend during the summer months, rodeo-like corrals are set up in forest clearings or meadows around the country. Thousands of people gather around these enclosures in village fair-like settings to watch bull-on-bull fights in which animals push each other and clash horns until one of them admits defeat by turning their tail and fleeing. The clash often lasts just a few minutes. Before bulls enter the arena, inspectors check their horns and even cut off the tips if they are too sharp. They also check the animals' anti-doping test results and make sure the bulls clash heads only if they want to. Among the village folk in Bosnia, the love of bulls and bullfighting is installed in children at an early age. Attending the fights is often embraced as a family activity. 'This is a part of our tradition. We love it,' explained Muriz Spahic, who drove for more than 70 kilometers (around 45 miles) to watch bulls fighting last Sunday outside the village of Bijelo Polje in central Bosnia. 'My grandpa loves it, he is here with us today, I love it, my child loves it," he said, "We go to the fights together.' In between the fights, the spectators fire up grills, roast meat, drink and dance to blaring folk music. Fighting bulls of Bosnia have traditionally been trained by men, but women started joining the fray several years ago. Still, women in this field are rare and Junuzovic, who started training bulls at the age of 12, remains the youngest of the trainers. Some of her school friends look down at her hobby and insist that it is 'stinky,' she said. But those who she really cares about are 'very supportive. They call to congratulate me every time we win.' Bulls fight in different weight classes and Cobra, who weighs 620 kilograms (more than 1,360 pounds), is among the 'lightweights.' Cobra's winning streak, which began eight fights ago, continued in Bijelo Polje, where he scored his ninth victory of the 2025 bullfighting season. The other bull 'quit,' because he 'was unprepared,' Junuzovic said. Around half of the scheduled battles overall end with one of the animals leaving the ring without even trying. 'Still, we won and every victory counts,' she said with a big smile.
BBC News
12-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Brecon 800kg bull named Bruce rescued after getting stuck in the mud
An 800kg bull that got stuck up to to its shoulders in mud has been rescued by firefighters. Mid and West Wales Fire and Rescue Service said crews were called to help Bruce, a nine-year-old stock bull, who got into difficulty near Llanfihangel Nant Bran in Brecon, Powys, at about 11:30 BST on all-terrain vehicle and pick-up truck from Brecon Fire Station used in a "challenging extrication" that took more than two and an half hours. "Crews utilised animal rescue lines, slings, straps and trowels," the fire service said. Bruce's owner, Marilyn Jones, thanked the rescuers, which included help from Honddu Vets. "Bruce is now happy eating in his field, having been for a long walk since being rescued," she said.
The Guardian
28-01-2025
- The Guardian
Ban on XL bully dogs a ‘huge burden on policing', force chiefs warn
Enforcing a ban on XL bully dogs is placing a 'huge burden on policing' with millions of pounds spent on veterinary bills and kennelling, police chiefs have warned. The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) said kennel spaces were 'reaching capacity', with costs 'increasing by the day'. It said veterinary bills and the cost of kennelling banned dog breeds had risen from £4m in 2018 to more than £11m between February and September 2024, adding it can cost about £1,000 a month to keep an XL bully in kennels. The policing body said the figure is expected 'to rise to as much as £25m' for the period from February 2024 to April 2025 – representing a predicted 500% increase in police costs from 2018. Since February 2024, it has been a criminal offence to own an XL bully dog in England and Wales without an exemption certificate, meaning unregistered pets will be taken and owners possibly fined and prosecuted. Similar legislation came into effect in Scotland in August. As well as the XL bully, other banned types of dog under section 1 of the Dangerous Dogs Act 1991 include the pit bull terrier, Japanese tosa, dogo Argentino and fila Brasileiro. Chief constable Mark Hobrough, the NPCC's lead for dangerous dogs, said the ban was placing 'a huge burden on policing'. The chief constable of Gwent police added: 'We are facing a number of challenges in kennel capacity, resourcing and ever-mounting costs, and as of today we have not received any additional funding to account for this. 'We urgently need the government to support us in coping with the huge demand the ban has placed on our ever-stretched resources.' Hobrough said conversations were 'ongoing' with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs but there was no formal agreement 'whereby any funding has come into any police force to account for these additional demand factors'. Police forces seized 4,586 suspected section 1 banned dogs throughout England and Wales between February and September 2024. There were 120 dog liaison officers across England and Wales before the ban, with 100 subsequently trained, and a further 40 to be trained, according to the NPCC. Hobrough said this meant 'in some areas established dog handlers have been called away from other policing duties'. The NPCC said about £560,000 had been spent by police forces on staff overtime between February and September last year in relation to canines. NPCC tactical lead superintendent Patrick O'Hara said he did not think all XL bullies were automatically dangerous, but they had the 'propensity' to be by their 'sheer size and power'. O'Hara added: 'In the right hands, with the right socialisation, with a really responsible owner, a lot of those dogs will never come to notice.'
