{"id":327022,"date":"2025-12-20T20:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327022\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T20:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T20:12:06","slug":"police-use-riot-shields-to-help-recapture-runaway-wiltshire-goat-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/327022\/","title":{"rendered":"Police use riot shields to help recapture runaway Wiltshire goat | UK news"},"content":{"rendered":"

An escaped goat which went on a rampage in a Wiltshire<\/a> village was safely lassoed by police carrying riot shields.<\/p>\n

The runaway ruminant mammal was trotting around Upper Seagry, near Chippenham, and was seen chasing a woman around the village and trying to eat oranges from a Christmas wreath, an eyewitness told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Wiltshire police used riot shields and a lasso to round the animal up before it was safely returned to its owner on Thursday morning.<\/p>\n

The goat also attempted to munch on safety equipment from the back of the officer\u2019s car.<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently it\u2019s not very nice,\u201d one of the officers can be heard saying on body-worn camera footage.<\/p>\n

The officer added: \u201cWe\u2019ve got it on a tow line, we\u2019ve got some [riot] shields because he\u2019s trying to butt my head.\u201d<\/p>\n

The animal briefly slipped the lasso before being re-captured and taken home.<\/p>\n

A Wiltshire police spokesperson said: \u201cPC Ferris and PC Miller, from Chippenham Response, swiftly responded, controlled the situation and returned the goat to his owner.\u201d<\/p>\n

In October, an attempt to retrieve a stranded goat at the bottom of a bridge arch led to an emergency call-out in Cumbria to rescue someone attempting to save the animal.<\/p>\n

Three fire crews and police were sent to Longtown Bridge in Carlisle after reports someone had gone into the water while trying to reach the animal.<\/p>\n

They had managed to extricate themselves but to \u201cprevent a repeat incident\u201d, fire officers were sent to retrieve the animal, Longtown fire station said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An escaped goat which went on a rampage in a Wiltshire village was safely lassoed by police carrying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-327022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}