Morning commuters in New Jersey had to overcome a major obstacle.
New Jersey Transit revealed on social networks that there was a 45-minute delay for trains running from Newark Penn Station to Pennsylvania Station in New York on Thursday morning due to a bull standing on the tracks.
The agency shared a photo of the animal – a brown bull with white horns – lounging in the middle of the tracks near the edge of the train station.
New Jersey Transit noted that due to the bull’s presence, there was heavy “police activity” at the Newark station and that rail tickets and passes will be honored by “Port Authority Trans-Hudson (PATH) and Hoboken, Newark Penn and 33rd Street New York. ”
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New Jersey Transit did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
A New Jersey Transit conductor confirmed to PEOPLE that the train delays and cancellations were caused by a “bull on the tracks in Newark.”
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A source who was on their morning commute at Newark Penn Station on Wednesday recalled to PEOPLE that they “heard some commotion, like people laughing and screaming” at the station around 10:15 a.m.
Jorge Pinto, who works at Abreu Truck Services in Newark, told PEOPLE in a statement that he heard reports of bull sightings near his workplace earlier in the morning. Abreu Truck Services is 1.5 miles from Newark Penn Station and less than a mile from the slaughterhouse.
“So I was talking to the guy from the lunch truck who ordered bacon, egg and cheese like I usually do at that time when he starts talking about the cow on Frelinghuysen… I go inside and start eating my sandwich when my colleague [begins] to show me pictures of the cow on Frelinghuysen,” Pinto said. “I couldn’t believe it.”
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WABC reported that police received calls about the bull on the tracks around 10:30 a.m., and by 11 a.m. the animal had come off the tracks.
In a statement from Fritz Frage, Newark’s director of public safety, obtained by The Guardian, Frage shared, “At approximately 10:46 a.m. today, Thursday, December 14, 2023, police responded to Frelinghuysen Avenue near Victoria Street to a call that the bull was observed loose behind the building. Members of the Newark Police Department’s Emergency Services Unit assisted Port Police in locating the animal and contained it within a fenced parking lot without incident. The animal will be retrieved and protected by a local animal shelter. No injuries were reported.”
The statement did not specify the name of the shelter that will take care of the animal.
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