BULL CHARGES CAR
AN ALARMING EXPERIENCE To have the light delivery van which he was driving charged by a bull was the alarming experience of Mr B. Brookland yesterday. Mr Brookland was proceeding to the unemployment camp at Briggs’ Gully and had left the main road and was driving along a narrow track through a paddock io the camp when the bull sighted the car. The animal, which had a heavy chain round its horns, lowered its head and charged. With commendable presence of mind the driver turned the car side on to the rush so that the beast’s horns struck one of the headlights which was badly broken, but the manoeuvre prevented the horns from penetrating the radiator or doing any greater damage than a few dents and scratched paint. The bull retreated a few yards after the rush and prepared to charge again, but Mr Brookland opened a door and, seizing some tyre levers and a lifting jack which were lying on the floor of the car. threw them at the animal’s head. Startled by the counter-attack, the bull retreated out of range and, while he did not further molest the car, he watched its progress with interest from a safe distance.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20064, 22 March 1935, Page 8
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204BULL CHARGES CAR Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20064, 22 March 1935, Page 8
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