Watch: Loose longhorns close off North Texas road, crash graduation party, police say
Loose longhorns closed off a North Texas road for about an hour Saturday in an incident that required police, a group of graduation party attendees and the “North Texas Rodeo Queen.”
In a series of tweets Saturday night, Southlake police said North Peytonville Avenue was closed off and on for about an hour because of loose longhorns.
“While there are no lassos in our squad cars (YET), our officers worked with the resources they had to corral, guide, and lead these behemoths back to where they belong,” one tweet said.
According to the tweet thread, police located high school sophomore Maeve Frost, who helps take care of the property and who they called the North Texas Rodeo Queen.
After moving toward the destination, the longhorns decided to crash the back yard of a graduation party, which had a live band, the thread said.
Party-goers, Frost, random citizens, and police officers worked together to steer the longhorns home.
“This is a very long synopsis but suffice to say…despite the high steaks, NORTH PEYTONVILLE HAS REOPENED,” the thread said.
Also on Twitter, Frost thanked Southlake police and first responders and her horse, Chocolate Chip.
“Well....I never knew saving this horse from a starved, and abused past that a year later we would be making the news,” Frost wrote. “I am so blessed to be the girl on chocolate chip not only for rodeos but for also doing a high speed cow chase in Southlake Texas with @SouthlakeDPS.”
The next day, a Southlake officer saved a baby owl, who “was abandoned at Commerce and Southlake Boulevard by his mother and left owl by himself,” the department tweetd. “After seeing Momma wasn’t coming back, officers arrived to take him to an animal rehab center where he can be properly raised and loved.“
This story was originally published June 6, 2022 at 10:13 AM.
