Comedian Jon Stewart rescues runaway bull from slaughterhouse

The bull was transported to an upstate New York sanctuary

Jon Stewart attends a 2015 Farm Sanctuary gala in New York City Getty Images/Brent N. Clark

A bull that broke free from a Queens, New York, slaughterhouse found sanctuary with the help of comedian Jon Stewart.

The black and white Angus bull ran amok on the streets of the Jamaica section of the borough Friday morning, before finding an open plot of grass the campus of nearby York University. Police were able to corral, lasso, and tranquilize the bull, later named “Frank,” before transporting him to Animal Care Centres of NYC (ACC) in Brooklyn.

Staff members of the centre spoke with the bull’s owner, a cattle rancher from upstate New York, and tried to pool money to buy the bovine, the New York Times reported. The staff did not end up buying the bull, however.

It was when a board member of the Animals of Farm Sanctuary, Tracey Stewart, and her former Daily Show host husband, Jon, intervened that Frank was able to rest easy.

The bull, named after Alcatraz escapee Frank Lee Morris by ACC staff, was transported to the Cornell University Equine and Farm Animal Hospital before going to his permanent home at the Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York.

“Here, he will soon join his new herd and cattle family,” Farm Sanctuary staff wrote on the organization’s blog. “Here, he will have lifelong care. And here, he can live in peace.”