On June 16, 1997, Edward Rijstenbil rescued his father from an angry bull on their family farm, in Russell, Ontario. The men were moving their herd of cattle from one pasture to another, when a 568- kg bull turned on the older man, goring him in the thigh and the abdomen. The force of the attack threw him some five metres in the air rendering him unconscious. While the injured man lay beside an electric fence, the beast charged again but became tangled in the wire. Kneeling on the victim's chest, and with the 120-volt live wire hitting its hind legs, the bull relentlessly continued its attack, moving its powerful head, neck and shoulders in a side-to-side motion. Without regard for his own safety Mr. Rijstenbil pulled a fencing rod from the ground and attacked the enraged animal. Facing the bull, he smashed the rod onto its head with a powerful blow that forced the animal to retreat.