A local man's pet emu escaped and prompted a slow-speed police chase to capture the giant bird.
In this screen grab from a video, an emu leads police on a slow-speed chase in Harriman, Tenn., on April 12, 2023.Social media sites filled with locals describing what they had just witnessed.
The emu at the center of the commotion was MeeMoo of Harriman. Software programmer Harry McKinney helped hatch MeeMoo five years ago when a local hatchery's incubator broke. McKinney described raising the emu on his 40-acre farm alongside sheep, turkeys, ducks, and other animals as a joy, or at least when MeeMoo stays in his enclosure."They have a flight or flight reflex, and he chose flight," McKinney said. "He chose to run.
Steven McDaniel was planning on taking his dog for a car ride on Wednesday when he noticed the commotion in the normally quiet town.McDaniel took out his phone to film and post a video of four police cruisers slowly driving behind the emu to capture the bird. The chase ended when the officers cornered MeeMoo near a local home surrounded by hedges. McKinney was enlisted to end the pursuit, calling his pet emu back to safety.
"He just would hold its feathers like hold its wings straight out and come at you like 'oh gosh, did it get mad or what,'" Tapp said about some of his officers' encounters with MeeMoo."For us, he's like a dog," he said. "But for people that had never seen any emus before, it was a T-Rex coming down the sidewalk at them."
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