ProRodeo Sports News - May 14, 2021

COWBOY STORIES

Sellars duped by U-Haul-employee imposter CRAZY Days U-Haul photo Above, a U-Haul truck sits ready to be driven. Little did bull rider Clayton Sellars realize someone would steal the U-Haul he rented in 2018 when he made an early-morning drop-off.

BY TRACY RENCK N ot long after bull rider Clayton Sellars’ Petri. Sellars and Petri were entered in the Santa Maria (Calif.) Elks Rodeo in May 2018. But the two bull riders didn’t have an easy method of getting to the central part of the state. A little ingenuity helped, but it also unexpectedly had them helping police. “That day we flew into Los Angeles and we were too young to rent a car, but we were old enough to rent PRCA career started, life on the rodeo trail threw him a curveball he didn’t see coming and neither did his traveling partner Jesse

a U-Haul truck,” Sellars said. “So, we went to this little rundown U-Haul place in Inglewood and rented a big truck. We drove up to Santa Maria, which was like four hours away, for the rodeo. We had a 6 o’clock flight out of L.A. the next morning. After the rodeo, we drove back to L.A. We parked the truck in the parking lot of an In- N-Out Burger. We ate some In-N-Out Burger and slept in the U-Haul for a couple of hours.” Sellars, not quite 20 at the time, had to return the U-Haul around 4 a.m., which he did, or so he thought. “The procedure is when you turn the U-Haul truck after hours you drop the keys in the little drop box and you’re good,” Sellars said. “We didn’t know that. It was the first time we ever rented a U-Haul. We pull in the parking lot and there was this man standing there and

With as many miles and hours that ProRodeo cowboys spend throughout their careers, they’re bound to stumble across some interesting sights. ProRodeo Sports News is bringing you some of those wild tales told by members of the PRCA.

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