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Glens Falls bull rides through Burger King drive-thru

A saddle bull called Iceman went through a Burger King drive-thru in Glens Falls, New York, with a cowboy on his back placing the order. Nobody has asked the bull how he felt about the menu.

Aerial view of downtown Glens Falls, New York, with a main road crossing a bridge over the Hudson River, red-brick buildings, an arena with a green roof and wooded hills behind
Representative: downtown Glens Falls, New York, in March 2026. Not the event. Image: Quintin Soloviev / CC BY 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

There are some customers a fast-food worker is trained for. Then there is Iceman, a very large saddle bull, strolling up to the Burger King drive-thru window in Glens Falls, New York, with a cowboy on his back leaning over to place the order.

Iceman belongs to Diamond W Saddle Cattle, who were in town for the 35th Adirondack Stampede Rodeo (6–7 November). Over the weekend his handlers took him on a little tour of the area and posted photos and video on Facebook, captioned: “Iceman’s first time through the Burger King drive-thru in Glens Falls NY”, followed by burger, cow and cowboy emojis.

Cartoon of a huge grey bull wearing a little gold crown at a fast-food drive-thru window, a cowboy on his back trying to order, while a horrified young worker in a headset holds out a burger and the bull glares at it with deep suspicion; a queue of cars waits behind AI illustration – the moment the bull saw what was on the menu (probably). Not the actual event.

We will gently point out the obvious: a bull, queuing for burgers. Local radio station WPDH, which reported the visit on 9 November, noted the post pulled in hundreds of reactions and shares.

Iceman wasn’t finished, either. The handlers also took him to Falls Farm & Garden Equipment and to Big Brothers Big Sisters, and joked that followers were playing their own version of “Where’s Waldo?” (that’s Where’s Wally? to us) by guessing where he’d turn up next.

Cartoon of a smiling grey bull in a polka-dot bib sitting in a diner booth eating a huge salad with a fork, while a sheepish cowboy next to him hides a burger behind a menu and other customers stare AI illustration – we like to think he ordered a side salad. (Spot Gaz, our gorilla, hiding somewhere in this picture.)

What Iceman actually ordered has not been made public. We suspect it wasn’t the Whopper.

Source: WPDH (Jana Deak, 9 November 2026), citing photos and video posted by Diamond W Saddle Cattle on Facebook.

Images: main photo – “Downtown Glens Falls, NY” by Quintin Soloviev, March 2026, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized; representative, not the event). Illustrations: Gorilla Gazette / AI-generated.

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