article_snippet.sent: It was turning into the wild, wild, West," Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple told reporters on Friday.
article_snippet.sent: The herd then stampeded across the interstate highway, breaking through a wire fence.
article_snippet.sent: Once They crossed over the freeway, that really escalated the freeway," Thomas Heffernan of the Bethlehem Police Department said.
article_snippet.sent: The bull of the heard weighed over 1,300 pounds and a collision with a car could easily have been fatal, Thomas Heffernan of the Bethlehem Police Department said.
article_snippet.sent: The herd broke through three strands of high tensile barbed wire to escape the farm, and later swam across the Hudson River, according to Mesick, still surprised.
highlights_snippet.sent: The herd breaks through three layers of barbed wire fencing and crosses the Hudson River during the escape .