November 23, 2016
Thom Carroll/PhillyVoice
Officer Jerry Czech, center, of the Pennsylvania Game Commission, shoots the bull three times with a 12-gauge slug on Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2016, near Eighth and Vine streets in Center City.
It was bound to happen.
When a bull escaped a Philadelphia slaughterhouse and roamed the streets of the city before being fatally shot by a Pennsylvania Game Commission officer, you knew what was coming next.
If that bull that was shot and killed roaming the streets of Phila. isn't named #Harambull, I'm going to be disappointed with you, Twitter.
— Ed Miller (@PhillyEdMiller) November 22, 2016
The internet was waiting for its next Harambe, a gorilla shot and killed at the Cincinnati Zoo in May after a young child fell into its enclosure. Members of the Philly Twitter universe had already gotten their kicks out of the endless memes that facetiously honored his memory, so when a parallel incident played out in their backyard, what followed was an inevitability.
When you think you came up with #Harambull and then you realize that 18,547,245 people tweeted it thinking the same thing. pic.twitter.com/630NnpzgOy
— Chip Reiderson (@ChipReid2014) November 22, 2016
The bull who roamed I-95 and passed by a local gentleman's club before meeting his fate near Eighth and Vine streets will now forever be known as "Harambull":
RIP Harambull.
— Matt Mullin (@matt_mullin) November 22, 2016
He was just trying to get to Delilah's... pic.twitter.com/cITydVjPWV
RIP Philly escaped bull. I will call you... Harambull. https://t.co/E32BRjO33e
— Yamsgathai (@Yagathai) November 22, 2016
I move that we all should have prime rib on Thanksgiving to honor #Harambull
— Scott Bailey (@scottbails13) November 22, 2016
#phillybull rip harambull
— Halle Richardson (@BerryRose24) November 22, 2016
Justice for Harambull
— Buddy Visack (@buddy2st) November 22, 2016
Well, here it is. I'm sorry, Harambull. #PhillyBull pic.twitter.com/gTRxrx2Bom
— Josh Jablonski (@fightinz) November 22, 2016
RIP Harambull. As Philly would say...the bull dead.
— Tom Aresco (@TomAresco) November 23, 2016
Rest in peace, Harambull. We hardly knew ye.
