Emu escapes from Vt. farm, on the lam for 5 weeks

[graywarrior]

By Wire Reports / The Daily Item

SOUTH HERO, Vt. (AP) - An elusive emu on the lam in Vermont has been amusing residents in communities on Lake Champlain.



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[valerief]

1. Bwah! Great story! "Emus don't make great pets." Duh! Get a dog or cat or bird. nt

[graywarrior]

11. Statement of the year!

[Ptah]

2. He's taken out an ad in a local newspaper saying, "Free emu if you can capture it."

[taterguy]

3. Emus scare the hell out of me

Good thing I'm not in Vermont

[Baclava]

4. spooky dinobirds, if they had teeth they would eat you!

[pipi_k]

5. Ruh, roh....

He'd better hope my oldest stepdaughter doesn't get hold of his ass.

She would cook him. Seriously.

One Thanksgiving she asked the family if we would like emu instead of turkey.

Only the threat of a mutiny put a halt to the emu insanity...

[graywarrior]

12. !!!

[sarge43]

6. I love the way Vermonters deal with the silly stuff.

Catch it and it's yours, cousin.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

7. I remember a few years ago when I lived in a rural area,

I was driving home, and my neighbor who had an emu farm must have left the gate unhooked, and there were about 15 emu running all over the road. (good thing none got hit, because almost everyone drove 75 mph down that road).

[graywarrior]

13. Hahahahahaha!

[Arugula Latte]

8. The emu's been on the lamb for five weeks?

Poor widdle sheep.

[whistler162]

9. Should have let him go....

at least we know where he has been since his career fizzled!

[LiberalEsto]

10. you must mean it's been "emusing" residents...

[graywarrior]

14. Oh man, your wit is so witty!

[MiddleFingerMom]

15. "Only the threat of a (e)mutiny put a halt to the emu insanity..." (FTFY)

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They woulda been granted emu-insa-nity..."
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[graywarrior]

16. I'm b-emused

[Texasgal]

17. Recently we had a buffalo

get loose in our community. He was hanging out at a local wildlife park before rescuers got him!

Crazy!

[graywarrior]

18. Hanging out....

like a dude.

[quakerboy]

19. Tried to catch it with an extension cord

And it got away. He should probably be very glad that's all it did. I cant imagine it was overly happy to have strange monkeys throwing crap at it.

[graywarrior]

20. Where does an emu hide?

[quakerboy]

21. In front of a very big TV playing Sesame Street.

Or in the yard of a really blind old lady who thinks she is setting out food for a wild giraffe?

[graywarrior]

22. LOL

Or disguised as a basket ball playing duck

[OriginalGeek]

23. this guy used to crack me up when I was a kid

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hey, I was a kid...

[DFW]

24. When I was a kid in Virginia, I saw a monkey climbing a tree through our window

I called to tell my mom, who angrily told me to cut the shit or I would be denied TV privileges.

She thought my ability to distinguish reality from fantasy was being destroyed by TV.

An hour later, some neighbors dropped by to say that their pet monkey had escaped, and asked if we had seen
it outside climbing trees by any chance.

To my mom's credit, she did apologize.

This is recounted as a public service to any parents in Vermont who might have a similar reaction if their
kid comes running in to the living room yelling that he saw an ostrich running around outside.

(Any parent who would deny their kid TV privileges for not being able to distinguish an emu from an
ostrich should be denied custody).

[graywarrior]

26. You should apply to be the emu's spokesperson

[HopeHoops]

25. That's emu-zing.

[cliffordu]

27. Really? You're going to go there?

An EMO LAMB fer chrissake??

[graywarrior]

28. How about a butter lamb?

Baaaaaaahhhhhh!