Virginia sheep leads police on a 'food pursuit' – then gets taken into custody in someone's back garden
Police in Manassas Park, Virginia, detained a runaway sheep after a 'brief food pursuit' through a housing estate. No charges yet, but officers suspect 'a few outstanding baaa-violations'.
Most police chases involve sirens and helicopters. This one involved a sheep and, judging by the emojis, a lettuce.
Officers from the Manassas Park Police Department in Virginia were called to Nancy Street, in the Blooms Crossing neighbourhood, on Wednesday 28 October after a report of a sheep on the loose.
Stock photo – not the actual sheep. Photo: Basotxerri / CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons).
The woolly suspect was detained, police said, “after a brief food pursuit that led straight into someone’s backyard”, a statement they followed with a running emoji and a lettuce emoji. According to WJLA 7News, the department joked on Facebook that the sheep had been “less than cooperative”, but it was taken into custody “safe and sound” and seemed in good spirits.
AI illustration. (Spot Gaz, our gorilla, hiding somewhere in this garden.)
“No charges have been filed at this time,” the department posted, “but we do suspect a few outstanding baaa-violations.”
AI illustration.
Nobody yet knows where the sheep came from. “If you’re missing your four-legged fugitive,” police said, “contact the Manassas Park Police Department.”
Reported by UPI and WJLA 7News, from posts by the Manassas Park Police Department.
