"Bull run in suburbia"

Maybe our English cattle were inspired by my March round-up: from The Daily Mail:

Three bulls on death row escaped from an abattoir and ran amok on a housing estate.

Residents were left open mouthed as the bulls, affectionately known in the cowshed as Rio, Steve and Chuck, made their bid for freedom and charged up and down streets in Great Notley, near Braintree in Essex.

Frightened parents taking their children to school dialled 999 as the hefty trio of 142 stone beasts rampaged past their front doors.

People were warned to stay indoors, including schoolchildren at nearby Notley Green Primary School, and police marksmen were called in at around 8.40am.

All three bulls were killed and their bodies recovered by noon. Two were killed in Queenborough Lane on the White Court Housing estate in Great Notley, while a third bull took off in the opposite direction, and was shot in Mary Ruck Way in Black Notley...