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A young bull remains on the run from the law after a heroic escape from a farm auction house and subsequent evasion of the authorities.

The small bull, known as a stocker, was about to be auctioned off at the Ottawa Livestock Exchange on Thursday. When faced with an uncertain future, the stocker decided to take matters into his own hands, and an approximately seven-foot-high door wasn’t going to hold him back from his freedom.

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“He jumped it,” said an employee at the Livestock Exchange. “He’s f—–g crazy, man.”

Although the jump is impressive, the stocker wasn’t the first to accomplish the feat — several videos on YouTube show bulls clearing fences of similar height.

The stocker, almost 600 pounds, wasn’t out of the woods yet, as Ottawa resident Ken Tasker happened to be driving in the area at the time of the animal’s escape. Tasker came nearly face-to-face with the young bull on Evening Shadow Avenue near Bank Street around 3 p.m.