Alliance, Ohio – Police responded to a call reporting “a man in a cowboy hat riding a whitish bull up and down the parking lot” at the Walmart in Alliance.

Officer Hook arrived to find the man and his bull nearby at the Tractor Supply Co. on the 2500 block of West State Street.

The unusual sight quickly turned lighthearted when the officer climbed onto the bull for a photo.

According to police, the man and his animal were simply passing through town on their way to the rodeo at Garwood Arena in Columbiana scheduled for the weekend.

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