{"id":321666,"date":"2025-12-02T01:01:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321666\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T01:01:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T01:01:05","slug":"look-reindeer-escapes-christmas-event-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/321666\/","title":{"rendered":"Look: Reindeer escapes Christmas event in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dec. 1 (UPI) &#8212; One of Santa&#8217;s reindeer escaped from a Christmas event in England, sparking a search and rescue operation involving police, coast guard and Royal Marines.<\/p>\n<p>The Southport Offshore Rescue Trust said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SouthportLifeboat\/posts\/pfbid026b9uRnTg8nNKCwSgAbS1MntCki9vHZVXqittd3n4y7PBn9jXG9FPk3je7UTFca4Hl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on social media<\/a> that the reindeer escaped Saturday from an event in Formby.\n<\/p>\n<p>Merseyside Police tracked the reindeer&#8217;s movements through the area, but lost track of the animal as night fell.<\/p>\n<p>The Rescue Trust&#8217;s Lifeboat Team joined in the search along with HM Coastguard Southport and HM Coastguard Crosby teams.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Lifeboat Team was able to use thermal binoculars to locate the reindeer on Formby Beach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although capture proved difficult, the team successfully shepherded the animal into the sand dunes at Altcar Rifle Range, where a police drone maintained watch,&#8221; the post said. &#8220;The reindeer eventually settled, allowing a vet, supported by Royal Marines, to safely secure it.&#8221;<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 1 (UPI) &#8212; One of Santa&#8217;s reindeer escaped from a Christmas event in England, sparking a search&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[1313,64,63,21184,43835,128,43836,338],"class_list":["post-321666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-funny","tag-odd","tag-science","tag-weird","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}