Stray emu plays a game of cat and mouse with police on New Mexico highway
Things they don't teach you when you learn how to drive: What to do if you see an emu running on the highway.
And yet that's exactly the situation these New Mexico motorists found themselves in when they came across this strange scene involving various law enforcement officers trying to capture a very frightened emu.
According to Las Cruces Sun-News, traffic was stopped by two truck drivers when they realized what was going on. And while the video ends with the emu still running free, Sun-News reports that it was eventually captured and is waiting in detention for its owners to pick it up.
We hope the next time this emu decides to go on an adventure, it picks somewhere less dangerous and with no oncoming traffic.
Topics Animals
Christine is a Web Culture Intern at Mashable. She has previously written for FanSided and Saturday Down South. She has a B.A. from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S. from Hunter College. Before she started writing, she worked in education as a teacher and school leader for four years. Her special talents include being able to quote The Office on command, playing non-stop Overwatch for hours, and composing only the wittiest of Tweets (her own opinion).
