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WEBVTT TIME THEY HAVE COME FACE-TO-FACE WITH A SLAUGHTERHOUSE ESCAPEE OR THE SUBSEQUENT ROUND UP. >> BADE READY -- THEY ARE GETTING TO BE HAMBURGERS. KATE: TWO BULLS A PIT STOP DEGREES FOR ABOUT THREE HOURS. THE BREAKFAST RATE CAME AFTER THE ESCAPE FROM A SLAUGHTERHOUSE JUST BEFORE 7:00 AND THEN RAN THREE MILES NORTH TO THE SPOT. >> WE WERE ABLE TO KEEP THEM CONTAINED IN THE AREA. RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY GOT TO SEE THE WHOLE INCIDENT UNFOLD. KATE: YES THEY DID. >> WOW! THOSE ARE SOME BIG BULLS. PACING BACK-AND-FORTH. >> I KNOW HE CAN BREAK YOUR OFFENSE. IF YOU WANTED TO. >> I'M GOING TO TRY TO CLIMB THE POLL. KATE: APPARENTLY THIS IS WHERE THE BULLS RUN TWO. WE HAVE BEEN DOWN THIS ROAD BEFORE. THIS ACTUAL ROAD IN WEST BALTIMORE. TWO YEARS AGO. >> THIS IS SOMETHING WE HAVE SEEN BEFORE. IN THE PRIMARY GOAL IS SAFETY. PUBLIC SAFETY. KATE: 2014, THE 800 POUND ESCAPEE HAD TO BE SHOT AND KILLED BY POLICE. THIS TIME, THE CREATURE WAS CORRALLED. CARTED BACK TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE. >> HOPEFULLY THIS IS IT FOR THE RUNNING OF THE BULLS BALTIMORE EDITION. KATE: GOOD NEWS, OR PROPERTY DAMAGE AND NOBODY WAS INJURED. WHILE POLICE ARE PRIORITIZING PUBLIC SAFETY, THEY SAY THEY WILL BE LOOKING TO THE FACT THAT THIS HAS HAPPENED AT THE SAME SLAUGHTERHOUSE BEFORE.

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Two massive, drooling, fly-swatting bulls made a run for it Friday morning in west Baltimore.The cattle got loose before 7 a.m. from the Old Line Custom Meat Company on South Monroe Street. The bulls were seen in the area on Pennsylvania and Clifton avenues.Police said the bulls were corralled more than 3 miles away in the parking lot of the Penn Square Apartments in the 2600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue, where they grazed on grass for about three hours."We were able to keep them contained in this area, the residents of this community had a birds eye view and got to see the whole incident unfold," said T.J. Smith, Baltimore police chief of Media Relations.Police said animals were captured by 10:20 a.m. Friday. Police said there was no property damage, and no one was injured."This could have been a serious situation because they were running down the streets of Baltimore at one point," Smith said.For people who witnessed the bulls' brazen break for freedom, and the wrangling that followed, it was a mix of curiosity and straight-up fear, most of it centered around the animals' size."The bulls were very big, enough that when I walked over there to see what was going on and saw them starting to trot, (I) didn't realize how big they were, so I ran to the other side of the fence relatively quickly," Smith said."This is the craziest thing I've ever seen in my life," a witness said."That's the craziest thing I've ever seen in this town. Those are some big bulls. They are really huge," a witness said.The animals were loaded onto a livestock trailer and carted back to the slaughterhouse."So hopefully, this is it for the running of the bulls, Baltimore edition," Smith said.This is not the first time this has happened. An almost 800-pound bull escaped from the same slaughterhouse two years ago.Stay with wbaltv.com the mobile app and 11 News for the latest on this story.Get the WBAL-TV News App