Oklahoma Election Day Incident

Some real Oklahoma-style excitement at our polling place today.

About 7am, a cattle truck ran off the highway. Reports vary from 39 (probably) to 79 (a lot in one truck) cattle involved. Four killed instantly, a dozen had to be euthanized. Many escaped, and had firefighters playing cowboy to round 'em up. Not sure of the condition of the driver and passenger, taken to the hospital.

I read about it in a local news site. Then we went to vote, around 11am, we discover this happened just south of the South entrance to our polling place. Fortunately, we came at it from the North, so we got in and out with no problem. Actually, easier than normal, since traffic from the south was slow.

The poll watchers said there had been one cow wandering through the parking lot, followed by somebody with a bucket of oats.