The Running of the Bull

Larry reads the NYT obits so we don't have to. Here's a bit from the obit of Nancy Littlefield, who oversaw film producction in NYC (link):

Although Ms. Littlefield happily visited all manner of celluloid disaster on the city, including bank robberies and car crashes (“They’re really easy,” she told The New York Times in 1982), she also took seriously her role as a guardian of public safety. When one client wanted to shoot a commercial featuring 40 bulls stampeding on Wall Street, for instance, she put her foot down. “I don’t care how many wranglers they had — what if the bulls went out of control?” she told The Times in the same interview. “Can you imagine coming up out of the subway and being greeted by a 5,000-pound Brahma bull?

After 39 of the bulls were informed that their services were no longer required, the commercial was made, with the lone remaining bull trotting demurely down the street."

Larry adds: Reminds me of a fellow I knew who was in a Xmas kids' play at Stern's department store in the early 60s. The play was Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and early on he had the line, "All right, you other thirty-seven thieves stay here and guard the horses."