Emailed in by Richard W, from the BBC:
A bull with a feed tray stuck on its head caused traffic tailbacks on a busy South Ayrshire road after escaping from a farmer's field.
Police were alerted to reports that the animal had wandered on to the A77 Ballantrae to Girvan road at about 15:30 on Tuesday.
The incident caused tailbacks for about 45 minutes until the farmer who owned the bull returned it to the field.
The animal had the feed tray removed and the farm fence was secured.
Do you have pictures - still or moving* - of the scene of this incident? Send them to the BBC Scotland news website at newsonlinescotland@bbc.co.uk
* I think most people would be deeply moved by pictures of a bull with a feed tray stuck on its head causing a tailback, it's a very deep metaphor for the contrast between man's inhumanity to man and the unsullied innocence of our four-legged, two-horned friends, or something like that.
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Good job the farmer got to the bull first, because that tailback would have lasted a lot longer if the emergency services had beaten him to it. Multiple police vans and fire engines would have been required, bollards and flashing lights erected, the chief constable coached on how to sound trauma-ridden, the latest EU high-viz jacket directive consulted, forms to be unloaded by fork-lift, no smoking stickers applied, villagers to be fingerprinted, extra LGBTs and wimmin drafted in for the cameras, translators hired for minorities, the farmer charged with terrorism, vets in space-suits to be summoned, the M1 to be closed, a quango set up to say "lessons have been learned", and by the time everyone had been counselled the bull would have died of old age.
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