--- title: The Secret to Moving A Reluctant Bison Is Blasting AC/DC description: Montana police know what moves a bison: AC/DC’s “Hell's Bells” canonical: https://time.com/5674149/reluctant-bison/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-09-11T15:31:56.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:14.179Z og:title: Cops Blast AC/DC to Get Reluctant Bison Moving og:description: Montana rangers know what moves a bison. og:url: https://time.com/5674149/reluctant-bison/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cops Blast AC/DC to Get Reluctant Bison Moving twitter:description: Montana rangers know what moves a bison. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Cops Blast AC/DC to Get the Reluctant Bison Moving Out of the Road and It Works Like a Charm by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 11, 2019 3:31 PM UTC by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Sep 11, 2019 3:31 PM UTC If you watch enough local news or binge watch a few seasons of _Law & Order_, you know that law enforcement officers have to know how to handle all sorts of difficult situations. That could be negotiating in a hostage situation or quelling an angry mob, or if you’re a sheriff in Montana, knowing how to get a stubborn bison off the road. After years of herding bison to safety off the roads of West Yellowstone, which is near where the buffalo roam in [Yellowstone National Park](https://time.com/5634056/9-year-old-girl-bison-launched-yellowstone/), the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office in Montana has figured out a few tricks for getting a reluctant bison moving. [According to a post](https://www.facebook.com/1448191668730032/photos/a.1464285970453935/2361349830747540/?type=3&theater) on the department’s official Facebook page, they can try to flash their lights or use their sirens in the hope that the enormous animal will follow traffic laws and pull to the side of the road. Or they can use an airhorn to try and encourage America’s [first national mammal](https://time.com/4311574/bison-national-mammal/) to move off the highway. If all else fails, though, they have one more trick: Blasting AC/DC’s “Hells Bells” through the cars loud speakers. “That usually seems to work,” the post said. If the bison still woun’t move along to that _Back in Black_ track, perhaps they could try “Highway to Hell” instead. The news of [bison](https://time.com/5556527/bison-happy-dance-spring/)’s seeming hatred of the Australian hard rock outfit comes after a [women used Metallica’s music](https://www.npr.org/2019/08/02/747504766/metallica-scares-off-cougar) to scare off a cougar. Perhaps someone in Florida can try blasting Slayer to try and get an alligator to vamoose. The Secret to Moving A Reluctant Bison Is Blasting AC/DC ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5674149/reluctant-bison/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5674149/reluctant-bison/"},"headline":"Cops Blast AC/DC to Get the Reluctant Bison Moving Out of the Road and It Works Like a Charm","datePublished":"2019-09-11T15:31:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:14.179Z","description":"Montana police know what moves a bison.","url":"https://time.com/5674149/reluctant-bison/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","Music","Montana"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5674149/reluctant-bison/","name":"Cops Blast AC/DC to Get the Reluctant Bison Moving Out of the Road and It Works Like a Charm"}}]}] ```