{"id":26927,"date":"2020-10-09T11:17:05","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T16:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26927"},"modified":"2020-10-08T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T14:23:07","slug":"carbondale-police-update-their-rules-of-emu-engagement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/09\/carbondale-police-update-their-rules-of-emu-engagement\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbondale Police Update Their Rules of Emu Engagement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eagletribune.com\/news\/emu-runs-loose-in-haverhill-unusual-bird-is-captured-by-police\/article_6cf4fb90-0336-11eb-b3f0-afd80e81c3af.html\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emu runs loose: Big bird named Kermit escapes Haverhill yard, stretches its long legs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The emu named Kermit was being handled by a Haverhill woman who temporarily cares for animals in need of homes. On Wednesday morning, the woman was in the process of transporting Kermit to a farm in Maine when the bird tried to make a quick getaway. According to a resident who saw the incident, a gust of wind blew open a gate to the property where the bird was being held, and Kermit ran.<\/p>\n<p>The bird calmed down after being given a pear from a nearby pear tree and was carried to safety.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The police did not have to shoot it <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/15\/officers-feared-for-their-lives\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">eight times<\/a>.  Although that was a different time; in the intervening decade and a half, the Carbondale police force undoubtedly has gotten some armored vehicle remainders from the United States Government and can now simply run down the bird with an MRAP if they don&#8217;t have a pear handy.<\/p>\n<p>(You can see all of my mockery of the incident <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?s=Carbondale+Emu\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.  This link via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neatorama.com\/2020\/10\/07\/Authorities-Entice-Runaway-Emu-Using-A-Pear\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Neatorama<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emu runs loose: Big bird named Kermit escapes Haverhill yard, stretches its long legs: The emu named Kermit was being handled by a Haverhill woman who temporarily cares for animals in need of homes. On Wednesday morning, the woman was in the process of transporting Kermit to a farm in Maine when the bird tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26929,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26927\/revisions\/26929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}