Runaway steer ‘Lester’ wrangled on Michigan highway

• An escaped steer named Lester was wrangled on northbound Interstate 75 in Holly, Michigan, on Sunday. The bovine was reportedly on the lam for weeks before being caught.
• Lester was cornered by four people — one of whom was on horseback — and lassoed before he attempted to jump a guardrail and cross into the southbound lane.
• “The bovine was not charged and is back in the pasture with a story to tell all the other livestock,” the Michigan State Police’s Twitter account noted in jest.

A team of wranglers — including one on horseback — chased down and captured a wayward steer named Lester across several lanes of a Detroit-area freeway.

State police in-car video shows the tail-end of Sunday afternoon’s chase on northbound Interstate 75 in Holly, about 57 miles northwest of Detroit.

A rider on horseback and three people in two ATVs can be seen chasing Lester in and around fields and woods along the east side of the freeway as the state police car follows slowly behind on the shoulder.

PALE MALE, ICONIC HAWK NESTED OVER NYC’S FIFTH AVE FOR DECADES, DEAD AT 33

At one point, Lester races from near a clump of trees toward the freeway lanes and is quickly cut off by one of the ATVs before running behind the vehicle and into traffic. Three vehicles pass the steer as it runs into the northbound lanes.

The rider on horseback catches up and lassos Lester, which then runs into the median and hops a guardrail onto the freeway’s southbound shoulder before it is stopped.

WISCONSIN DEPUTIES RESPOND TO DRIVER’S ‘CURIOUS’ CALL OF ‘BOBCAT IN MY CAR,’ BODYCAM VIDEO SHOWS

“Eventually after much tom foolery [sic], the critter was captured and removed from the freeway,” the state police wrote on the agency’s Twitter page. “Troopers reopened the freeway and things quickly got back to normal. The bovine was not charged and is back in the pasture with a story to tell all the other livestock.”

Lester had been on the lam for several weeks from a ranch where Lester and four other bovine were relocated after escaping from pens at an animal rescue facility in Rose Township, said Bill Mullan, a spokesperson for Oakland County.

Another agency called in wranglers who initially captured the group, but Lester escaped again and was on the loose until his recapture Sunday.