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This is practically my old back yard in my hometown. Check the photos. Stampede!
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/bal-buffalo0426,1,7003131.story?col
By Anica Butler
Sun Staff
Originally published April 26, 2005, 11:05 PM EDT
Police dispatched more than a dozen cruisers and one helicopter. They shut down roads, and state highway workers closed a Beltway ramp.
All to round up a herd of American bison disrupting rush hour and roaming through the upscale neighborhoods of Baltimore County's Greenspring Valley.
Then -- with the nine beasts corralled within the fence of a condo complex's tennis court -- the real work began.
You try coaxing thousands of pounds of agitated animal brawn into a trailer.
"Hectic and smelly," said Larry Plimack, a property manager who joined with police to help capture the bison. It seemed that no one woke up Tuesday expecting to confront a challenge straight out of a Western movie.
The bison made their escape early Tuesday from a farm off Greenspring Valley Road.
Their owner, longtime demolition contractor Gerald "Buzz" Berg, said he was settling down to breakfast when a neighbor knocked on his door at 7 a.m. and told him the animals were on the loose. Berg said he has been raising the animals -- commonly, if not precisely, referred to by many as buffalo -- for about 10 years on his 40-acre farm, mainly for meat.
He said he wasn't sure how they got out.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/traffic/bal-buffalo0426,1,7003131.story?col
By Anica Butler
Sun Staff
Originally published April 26, 2005, 11:05 PM EDT
Police dispatched more than a dozen cruisers and one helicopter. They shut down roads, and state highway workers closed a Beltway ramp.
All to round up a herd of American bison disrupting rush hour and roaming through the upscale neighborhoods of Baltimore County's Greenspring Valley.
Then -- with the nine beasts corralled within the fence of a condo complex's tennis court -- the real work began.
You try coaxing thousands of pounds of agitated animal brawn into a trailer.
"Hectic and smelly," said Larry Plimack, a property manager who joined with police to help capture the bison. It seemed that no one woke up Tuesday expecting to confront a challenge straight out of a Western movie.
The bison made their escape early Tuesday from a farm off Greenspring Valley Road.
Their owner, longtime demolition contractor Gerald "Buzz" Berg, said he was settling down to breakfast when a neighbor knocked on his door at 7 a.m. and told him the animals were on the loose. Berg said he has been raising the animals -- commonly, if not precisely, referred to by many as buffalo -- for about 10 years on his 40-acre farm, mainly for meat.
He said he wasn't sure how they got out.
