Twenty Dollars + Twenty Seconds = $,1000 in Your Pocket
April 13, 2008
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By: Kevin Leahy
There's a new bull in town at The Big House Bar and he's taking on any and all riders. This bull eats up and spits off riders like oats and flies in the pasture.
It Looks real easy to ride from a bar stool but once you mount that mechanical bull your on your own.
Nicky Gerhart (Above) Shows How It's Done!
Big House Bull At Full Speed - Are Ya Ready To Ride?
Jennifer Miller, Nicky Gerhart, Allie Lobodzinski and Whitney Arnold enjoy a night out at The Big House. Gerhart was the only one in the group to ride the bull that night.
(MyBayCity Photo by Kevin Leahy) Hyde is one of the bull operator's and he has his patented moves to shuck and toss any brave soul who tries the hydraulic beast.
Ashley Root gave it his best shot at staying on but like most he ended up on his back looking up at the bull.
(MyBayCity Photo by Kevin Leahy)
The bull hails out of West Virginia and was custom built by a professional bull rider who knew exactly what it's like to ride an ornery bull.
"Chiropractor Heaven is what they should call it," said patron Joe Goodyne while enjoying a cold beverage and refusing to ride the beast recently at The Big House. "The bull has never caused an injury, except one guy fell off the mat after he rode in West Virginia and hit his head," said bartender Shaun Scheidler.
For $5.00 patrons can get two attempts to tame the mechanical beast...only after they sign the waiver.
There are ten speed levels and most people ride it for fun from level one to level six. "The thousand dollar difference," as stated by Scheidler (who also operates the controls)"is level seven through ten." Anyone can pay $20.00 to challenge the bull for twenty seconds, and if they can stay on for one third of a minute they get $1000.00 for their efforts.
In the short two-month life of bull riding in Bay City no one has tamed the bull for twenty seconds yet.
"People just have a lot of fun trying to ride the bull," said Lacey Gillespie an employee at The Big House, "we had about 60 people ride it this past Saturday," she added.
"Sometimes I'll ride it four or five times a night," said Scheidler, "and the next morning I know it, I'm usually pretty sore everywhere."
The bull is surrounded by a three-foot inflatable landing mat to catch the flipped cowboys and cowgirls and it does its job well as most end up crawling off the mat laughing hysterically.
The nice thing about this bull is no rodeo clowns are needed to steer the mean bull away from a thrown rider, the operator just ease's the controls back and the terrorizing bull becomes docile again.
So if you think you have what it takes to stay on the bull for twenty seconds get on down to The Big House, pay your $20.00 and hold on TIGHT!
You might want to take a few $5.00 practice runs to get the feel and decide if you're a true $1000.00 broncobuster.
Kevin Leahy
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