PEORIA — He didn’t have an invitation, or even ring the bell. But the beast that barreled through Sally Joyner’s front door definitely left a mark.
Joyner heard a loud crash in her Peoria home and looked downstairs to find a full-grown bull in her foyer Saturday, one of apparently three that apparently roamed loose in north Peoria that morning, according to a report from Peoria County Sheriff’s Department.
The report didn’t say what Joyner’s bull weighed, but an adult bull can weigh 1,200 pounds or more.
“I was screaming,” Joyner told the (Peoria) Journal Star. “I went down a couple stairs and then I thought, ‘What am I doing?’ “
Joyner called her husband, who barely believed her.
“He was just saying, ‘What?’ I told him, ‘You need to get home.’ “
And she called the Peoria County Sheriff’s Department, pleading that she wasn’t full of, well, bull.
The bull barged his way back outside after a short while. He left behind $1,500 in damage, and a trail of fresh bull prints through the snow outside, but didn’t hurt anyone.
The Sheriff’s Department says he was found a short time later nearby.
According to the sheriff’s report, two other bulls were seen running in an area park about the same time.
The report didn’t detail where any of them came from, but said that a man named Gary B. Wessels of Galesburg — about 45 miles northwest of Peoria — was in charge of the bulls when they escaped.
And Wessels isn’t saying anything about how it happened.
“It’s none of your business,” he told a reporter.
Joyner’s just glad her visitor didn’t stick around.
“I don’t know how a bull thinks,” she said. “With me being as hysterical about it as I was, he probably wanted to get out of here.”
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