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A GOAT BELIEVED to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse delayed the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase.
The small, chocolate brown female eluded five Jersey City police officers for more than 90 minutes by jumping back and forth over a central divider along the Pulaski Skyway according to city spokesman Stan Eason.
Traffic was delayed from 7:10 a.m. until almost 9 a.m. along the elevated roadway, which traverses the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers between Newark and Jersey City and carries thousands of vehicles daily to the Holland Tunnel and into New York.
AP Photo/Jersey City Police Department, Francisco Rodriguez
Four vehicles, whose drivers were attempting to avoid the zigzagging goat, were involved in a minor accident, police said. There were no injuries.
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“A call came in: ‘There was a motor vehicle accident, and there’s a goat running around on the skyway,” Eason said, adding that Jersey City police were not alarmed:
“We had full-sized bucked deer running around in the metropolis downtown of Exchange Place about two years ago, before it jumped in the Hudson River and swam to Governor’s Island, so nothing surprises us”
The frisky goat eventually tired and officers were able to form a semi-circle around her and secure her in a noose.
AP Photo/The Jersey Journal, Reena Rose Sibayan
Officials are still trying to determine where the goat came from.
One of the goat’s ears is tagged with a U.S. Department of Agriculture tag, indicating the animal likely escaped a truck headed to a slaughterhouse, Eason said.
If no company claims the animal, it will be moved to a rural animal welfare facility that can accommodate livestock.
Eason pointed out:
“If it can survive running around the Pulaski Skyway for two hours, and then winds up in a slaughterhouse, it’s kind of sad, but if someone claims her, she is private property, so there’s not much we can do.”
Wednesday 27 November, 2024
Wednesday 27 November, 2024
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Goat escapes en route to slaughterhouse, outwits police
A GOAT BELIEVED to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse delayed the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase.
The small, chocolate brown female eluded five Jersey City police officers for more than 90 minutes by jumping back and forth over a central divider along the Pulaski Skyway according to city spokesman Stan Eason.
Traffic was delayed from 7:10 a.m. until almost 9 a.m. along the elevated roadway, which traverses the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers between Newark and Jersey City and carries thousands of vehicles daily to the Holland Tunnel and into New York.
AP Photo/Jersey City Police Department, Francisco Rodriguez
Four vehicles, whose drivers were attempting to avoid the zigzagging goat, were involved in a minor accident, police said. There were no injuries.
“A call came in: ‘There was a motor vehicle accident, and there’s a goat running around on the skyway,” Eason said, adding that Jersey City police were not alarmed:
The frisky goat eventually tired and officers were able to form a semi-circle around her and secure her in a noose.
AP Photo/The Jersey Journal, Reena Rose Sibayan
Officials are still trying to determine where the goat came from.
One of the goat’s ears is tagged with a U.S. Department of Agriculture tag, indicating the animal likely escaped a truck headed to a slaughterhouse, Eason said.
If no company claims the animal, it will be moved to a rural animal welfare facility that can accommodate livestock.
Eason pointed out:
How did yelling goats in pop videos become a thing?>
VIDEO: Just a baby goat dancing on a huge pig>
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