Unsuspecting Bike Thief Pursued and Lassoed by Real Cowboy on Horseback in Store Parking Lot

Unsuspecting Bike Thief Pursued and Lassoed by Real Cowboy on Horseback in Store Parking Lot
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When a woman in a Walmart parking lot in southern Oregon saw a man stealing her bicycle, she called out for help. Little did she know that the help would arrive like something out of a Western movie: a real-life cowboy on horseback who lassoed the thief and tied him to a tree.

Robert Borba is a ranch hand outside Eagle Point, Oregon, who rides and ropes for a living. Borba just happened to be on his way to a roundup and cattle branding in California when he stopped to buy some food for his sheepdogs at the department outlet.