Car with bull named Howdy Doody crammed into passenger seat pulled over by Nebraska police

A man driving a full-size bull named Howdy Doody in the passenger seat of a "beefed up" car was pulled over by police in Nebraska on Wednesday after a stunned onlooker reported the odd sight, authorities said.

A man driving a full-size bull named Howdy Doody in the passenger seat of a "beefed up" car was pulled over by police in Nebraska on Wednesday after a stunned onlooker reported the odd sight, authorities said.

Officers in Norfolk, about 120 miles northwest of Omaha, were dispatched at 10:05 a.m. CT for a call for a "vehicle with a cow inside" rolling through town, police records showed.

Nebraska police were in for a surprise after they got a call about a man driving through town with a “cow” in the passenger seat. News Channel NebraskaPolice assumed the bovine passenger would be a small calf, but what they came upon near the corner of West Norfolk Avenue and North 13th Street was a full-size bull riding shotgun in a 1996 Ford Crown Victoria.

The car's roof on the passenger side had been removed so the animal could fit.

"It's a solid car, so I went on and purchased up and beefed up the frame that was under it and the suspension, the tires and floor and cut the top off, and we were good to go," the bull's owner, Lee Meyer, said Thursday night.