{"id":331817,"date":"2010-02-17T16:28:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/bull-barrels-into-peoria-home"},"modified":"2010-02-17T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T21:28:58","slug":"bull-barrels-into-peoria-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/331817","title":{"rendered":"Bull barrels into Peoria home"},"content":{"rendered":"

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The report didn’t say what Joyner’s bull weighed, but an adult bull can weigh 1,200 pounds or more.<\/p>\n

“I was screaming,” Joyner told the (Peoria) Journal Star. “I went down a couple stairs and then I thought, ‘What am I doing?’ “<\/p>\n

Joyner called her husband, who barely believed her.<\/p>\n

“He was just saying, ‘What?’ I told him, ‘You need to get home.’ “<\/p>\n

And she called the Peoria County Sheriff’s Department, pleading that she wasn’t full of, well, bull.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The Sheriff’s Department says he was found a short time later nearby.<\/p>\n

According to the sheriff’s report, two other bulls were seen running in an area park about the same time.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And Wessels isn’t saying anything about how it happened.<\/p>\n

“It’s none of your business,” he told a reporter.<\/p>\n

Joyner’s just glad her visitor didn’t stick around.<\/p>\n

“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.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Read the original article on DailyHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Distributed via Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n

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