Lee Meyer was taking his bull Howdy Doody for a ride when police performed a routine traffic stop: "You’re not going to run across that every day," Police Captain Chad Reiman tells PEOPLE ...

"Howdy Doody would be central to our collection," saidAnnmarie Erickson, spokeswoman for the museum. "He signifies theend of the theatrical era of puppetry and brings us into thetelevision age." ...

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Matthew Gruber manufactured a Howdy Doody automaton, a mechanically driven puppet synchronized to a tape played on a continuous loop.

A retired man said he has been driving his pet steer Howdy Doody around in a customized Ford Crown Victoria for seven years without a problem. Then the police in Norfolk, Neb., stopped him.

Meyer said Howdy Doody is like a member of the family now, but she wasn’t always wild about how much her husband spent on the bull over the years.

All lives feel like they're lived in exile from something, because they are. That's the way it is, boys and girls. So, 60 years after I appeared on the "Howdy Doody" show, I'd like to offer a ...

That was the case this week when police in Norfolk, Nebraska, pulled over Howdy Doody and his owner Lee Meyer while the bull was riding shotgun in an old police cruiser.

Watch as a man in Nebraska get pulled over for having a 2,200 pound bull riding shotgun in his 1996 Ford Crown Victoria. Yes, this actually happened.

Howdy Doody rides shotgun through Nebraska town The driver was let off with a warning, but not before the spectacle was caught on camera.