The Flying Squad foils getaway... by an emu
AN escaped emu feels the full force of the law after causing traffic chaos in a market town.
Steve Huxtable, a police community support officer, was called in yesterday to try to catch the flightless bird in Barnstaple, Devon.
He managed to contain it in a front garden and later bundled it into an animal ambulance.
Steve said: “It was friendly but put up a bit of a struggle.”
Later, the bird – a female called Betty – was reunited with her owner.
She lives in a field with a male emu but someone had opened the gate.