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The
bemused bovine and camera-wielding humans stared at each other
through a chain-link fence for several minutes, according to
live news video.
At other times the beast wandered curiously around the 526-acre
(212-acre) Prospect Park, the largest in the borough of
Brooklyn, and the artificial turf field normally used for human
sporting events.
Officers used soccer goals to fence the animal in on a baseball
diamond, but the cow barreled through one of the nets, knocking
down a police officer.
Police eventually trapped the cow between two vehicles parked on
either side of baseball field's bench area after an officer
appeared to fire a tranquilizer dart at it.
Officers then seemed content to let the cow roam between cars,
waiting for the drug to take effect before they were able to
rope the beast and load it into an NYPD horse trailer.
It was not clear where the beast came from or how it got lost.
Police said they would turn it over to the animal control
department after they caught it.
The chase drew torrents of posts on social media, many featuring
groan-inducing puns.
The New York City Parks Department also got in on the act,
tweeting: "Hey, has anyone seen a cow?" When another user
responded that the animal was, in fact, a bull, the department
replied, "Excuse our calf...er, gaffe."
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta and Joseph Ax; editing by G Crosse)
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