of business. just three days after hardball s escape, he s back in action. okay, folks, tyler thompson has got a bull that took a little walk. bull rider tyler thompson rides that bucking bull for more than eight seconds. now let s see how many minutes of coverage they ll put on him. since hardball s escape, precautions have been taken to make sure the rodeo stays indoors. there are now four levels of gates that a bull or horse or anything else would have to go through before they get out. two rodeo employees suffer minor injuries from hardball s wild run. but those who were there know things could have been much worse. with all those children attending the jonas brothers concert in that parking lot, there could have been a lot more mayhem, a lot more injury, perhaps even death because a bull loose in a parking lot
chuck wagon event is getting under way inside the stadium. if you ve ever been close to these chuck wagons when they re racing, it s rumbling, there s a lot of noise, the horses are making noise, the rigs are jumping up and down and rattling. backstage, a bull named hardball is in his holding pen. hardball is a bucking bull. that night he was scheduled what we call a re-ride bull. on any given night, a cowboy may get a re-ride because of something, a bull doesn t buck or a horse falls down or it slams into the chute coming out. as the chuck wagons roar across the stadium, hardball s startled. he ran forward into a gate that was in front of him, pushed it forward and allowed a pin to come out of a gate that was beside him. the gate unlocks and hardball races out toward the exit. this surveillance video catches hardball as he makes his escape out of the stadium and into the loading dock. it was quite exciting out there on the loading dock area, as people were trying to stop
anyone that was trying to do anything. a female wrangler steps up to the challenge. hardball charges her and throws her to the ground. he actually bucked a girl and hit her right in the chest, and knocked her back. i feared for her. i was really afraid that she was hurt very severely because he hit her really hard. spectators jumped the fence to escape hardball s charge. a man tries to distract the raging bull with garbage barrels. the bull like almost bucked the trash can and almost hit a guy. the distraction buys enough time for security officers to arrive at the scene. one of them whips out a taser and confronts the powerful bull. you see this cop with a taser gun, that s like swatting an alligator with a flyswatter. the officer gets within a few feet of hardball and lets the taser fly. that just made the bull even
angrier, because how would you like to be tasered. it doesn t feel good. the bull charges the officer, missing him by inches. then when all hope seems lost, the cavalry arrives. here comes the cowboy. he ll take care of this. watch this. here s a cowboy. in a scene straight out of an old western, three wranglers rush in on horseback. there was a lot of tension in the parking lot. are they going to be able to get him, are they going to be able to, you know, pull him back, you know, away from everyone. within seconds, one of the cowboys ropes hardball. they got that bull. they got that bull. if you don t have a cowboy on a horse with a rope, you can t control a raging bull. it just doesn t happen. a taser gun is not going to do the trick. it s got to be a cowboy. the cowboys, they could have just sat back and said oh, well, the police are going to take care of it but no, they got on their horses and they took care
hardball charges forward. he sets his sight on the parking lot, where thousands of spectators are gathering for the concert. about the same time, scott barrett and his family approach the stadium. the parking lot was full of kids. i mean, a lot of kids were there. they were coming to see the jonas brothers. suddenly, a commotion breaks out. i see all these people running and i figured oh, maybe they saw the jonas brothers. i saw people running. i mean, just moms grabbing kids and running. you know, the opposite direction. the barretts quickly realize an 1800 pound bull is on the loose. denise and sarah marie run for cover while scott whips out his video camera. the bull kept bucking back and forth and zigzagging and people were jumping back. they didn t know what to do because the bull came different directions. i was absolutely terrified, because i thought that a bunch of people were going to get hurt because there was no sign of