Police Tasered and Handcuffed ... an Emu!

Posted by Alex in Animal on September 23, 2009 at 2:01 am


Forget tranquilizer darts – that’s the stuff of Hollywood. Real police officers use taser, even on a wayward emu:

Authorities in Mississippi said they had to handcuff an emu and shock it with a Taser to remove the ostrich-like flightless bird from a roadway.

Oh, and they used handcuffs, too. I’m assuming they meant emu legcuffs: Link (Sadly, no photo of the cuffed emu)


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4 comments to "Police Tasered and Handcuffed ... an Emu!"

  1. FishBottleT
    September 23rd, 2009 at 10:23 am

    Dont they have a thing called animal control for things like this?

  2. Seanette
    September 23rd, 2009 at 12:20 pm

    Fish, you would think. In the very small town I grew up, there was an animal control officer (for quite a while, my grandfather held that job), so you'd think in a larger city, they'd have a department of people trained to handle these problems.

    I don't think my grandfather ever had to deal with emus. The occasional stray horse or such, plus the usual dogs and cats, but I don't recall him mentioning any emus.

  3. D.D.
    September 23rd, 2009 at 1:56 pm

    Animal Control is part of the Sheriffs department. They are county cops.

  4. Skipweasel
    September 23rd, 2009 at 4:36 pm

    I'll bet Michael Parkinson would have paid to taser Emu.

    If that seems overly crpytic...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqrg_VCPgAQ


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