Cattle roundups are mostly a thing of the past, and this story takes place in western Pennsylvania, not the Wild West.
None of that mattered earlier this month when a resident called to report a herd of cattle walking through her yard.
Mayor Bill Boyd was first on the scene. He honked his horn at the nine bulls, cows and calves that were walking along. They were barely 90m from the town's main street.
"Two of them had pretty good horns on them," Boyd said.
Boyd got eight of the critters to stop, but the ninth just kept heading toward the town's main street.
Nathan Claycomb, a police officer, joined the mayor in trying to stop the stubborn animal.
Then a handful of residents joined in. Together they managed to get the wandering herd locked up in a nearby field.
Boyd said he doesn't know who owns the cattle.(STAFF WRITER, WITH AP)
趕牛入圈幾乎已經過時了，而且本次事件發生地點是美國賓州西部，而不是蠻荒的美國西部。
本月稍早，一位當地居民打電話報案說有一群牛走過他的院子，打破了小鎮以往的寧靜。
鎮長比爾．柏伊德是第一個趕到現場的人，他朝著九頭行進中的公牛、母牛和小牛鳴按喇叭，牠們距離該鎮的主要街道只有九十公尺。
「其中兩頭頭上都有一對漂亮的角，」柏伊德說。
柏伊德制止了其中八頭繼續前進，但仍有一頭持續朝著該鎮的主要街道邁進。
警員奈森．克萊康也加入，與鎮長並肩設法阻止這頭難應付的牲畜。
接著，又有一群居民加入這個行列。最後他們合力將這群四處閒晃的牛隻關在附近的一處牧場。
柏伊德說，他不知道這群牛的主人是誰。
（美聯社／翻譯：袁星塵）
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