A group of bulls turned the tables on a Massachusetts rodeo, busting out of their pen and turning the parking lot into a thundering stampede … setting off a frantic chase that had everyone running for cover.

The wild scene was caught on camera … showing North Attleboro locals dodging and weaving like they were in a bullfighting ring as 8 rambunctious bulls ran free, knocking down fences and leaping over another surrounding the event.

These bulls were not playing around … sprinting toward U.S. Highway 1 and then galloping toward the nearby woods.

Authorities managed to wrangle one bull pretty quickly, but the others weren’t as easy. Six of them were eventually found chilling behind a fence at a nearby home a few hours later.