From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 20. 1989:

Residents of East Lawrence may have witnessed an unusual sight when an 800-pound bull “jumped a fence at the Lawrence Livestock Sale Barn, 900 E. 11th, and went carousing down the streets” on a recent Saturday. Before the bull was captured, he managed to cross 23rd Street twice, damage a car and a City of Lawrence animal control truck, and attract plenty of attention while running down residential streets. Police managed to corner the animal at 21st and Pennsylvania, but when roping expert Benny Smith and his daughter Julie arrived with a trailer, the bull again jumped a fence and took off down Barker toward 23rd Street before eventually being rounded up on the southeast side of the Haskell campus. Smith, who managed to rope the bull and load the angry animal into a trailer, had learned his roping skills working on ranches while growing up in Oklahoma and had taught roping to 4-H groups. “It was kind of fun,” his wife later said about her husband’s and daughter’s unexpected weekend roundup. “They like to do things like that, but not in town.”