7/20/2002: Emu roundup

Undertoad · 07-20-2002, 11:14 AM

Failsafe, old friend of mine who's been a Cellarite on and off for years, sends along this shot of an emu being loaded into a police vehicle. These big-ass birds are found in Australia and New Zealand, but this one is a refugee of a house in the SF area.

According to the SF Gate story, which has an URL just too long to paste here, the officers couldn't figure out the best way to catch the bird. These emus are not quite as fragile as they look. They're 150 pounds of muscle and can run 40 mph. The police decided to try roping the thing like a steer, but it took off and dragged them. It took 15 minutes to catch the bird, during which its legs kicked and emptied one of the officers' cans of pepper spray.

Failsafe says the funny thing about this shot is "the guilty look on the perpetrator's face." It's like "Damn, coppers, you got me."

07-20-2002, 11:14 AM	#1
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	7/20/2002: Emu roundup Failsafe, old friend of mine who's been a Cellarite on and off for years, sends along this shot of an emu being loaded into a police vehicle. These big-ass birds are found in Australia and New Zealand, but this one is a refugee of a house in the SF area. According to the SF Gate story, which has an URL just too long to paste here, the officers couldn't figure out the best way to catch the bird. These emus are not quite as fragile as they look. They're 150 pounds of muscle and can run 40 mph. The police decided to try roping the thing like a steer, but it took off and dragged them. It took 15 minutes to catch the bird, during which its legs kicked and emptied one of the officers' cans of pepper spray. Failsafe says the funny thing about this shot is "the guilty look on the perpetrator's face." It's like "Damn, coppers, you got me."

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