And if so, was 2014 also the YOTB?
I'll tell you why I ask. It was June 13, 2014 that a steer got away from an abattoir in West Baltimore, leaped the barbed-wire fence that was supposed to keep him confined, and went for a joywalk of some two miles before Baltimore Police, in fear of damage to lives and property, ended his life in a slightly different manner than the butchers had intended.
Customers of nearby steakhouses and burger joints complained for days that their beef "tasted of lead."
AND THEN on June 13, 2019 - five years since the great Midtown Belvedere Rodeo - two steers decided to make their run for it.
Here's what I have to say about my beloved Baltimore, before I tell you how this roundup wound up. Other cities have lower crime rates, certainly fewer murders. San Diego is just one American city where the weather is indisputably superior to our hot 'n' hazy summers and frozen-stiff winters.
Other cities have tourist attractions that dwarf ours. Other towns have better baseball teams, yea, all of them do, except Kansas City. Only Baltimore has had a succession of mayors and public officials led away in handcuffs, and I defy any town anywhere to top the misadventures of Catherine Pugh, the mayor who wrote a series of children's books and became a millionaire overnight.
So there is a lot about Baltimore that is up for approval, and good people are at work on solutions.
But say what you will, there is not another city anywhere where the bulls come to town and learn to leap barbed-wire fences! We could have the Beef Steeplechase right here any time. Saddle up old Ferdinand, slip into the jockey getup, and leap!
Our cattle can jump high fences. Don't come at us.
So last week, Bullroast and Beefsteak got as far as a lawn with a fence at the Penn Square apartment building, right across from the stockyard. City police trained in the cowboy ways loaded them into a truck and took them back.
“This should never have happened,” said Medina Gaither, who just moved to the neighborhood this past December and might now have known she was now in Dodge City East.. “You’re jeopardizing a community of people. Why couldn’t you detain this animal? They need to shut that slaughterhouse down … or relocate it and be more secure. They need to move this out of the city and further in the county.”
Hey! They don't to be here, either. This is pit-beef stand country!
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