Escaped emu runs through traffic on California road

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorA loose emu was spotted running in and out of traffic on a road in Santa Cruz, California, and the California Highway Patrol helped wrangle it, UPI reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorAn emu. In traffic. On purpose, I'd imagine.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe highway patrol said it often deals with dogs, cats, deer and occasionally birds, and that an emu was unexpected.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOccasionally birds. So a pigeon gets a form, and an emu gets a trooper standing on the shoulder, going, 'Right.'

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorReports suggest it got out of its owner's property several days before the post. So it had a few days.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorDays?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorEmus can weigh up to a hundred and twenty pounds and run thirty miles an hour, according to Fox News, in an unrelated chase.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA hundred and twenty pounds at thirty miles an hour. That's a small van with feathers, and nobody's insured it. I have no theory, only dread.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMy theory is it wanted to see Seventeenth Avenue. The owner came out, troopers helped corral it, and it went home.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNobody got a ticket, not even the emu. I checked twice.