{"id":346216,"date":"2026-09-14T11:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346216\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T11:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T11:36:08","slug":"ramapo-police-nab-emu-after-breaking-out-of-local-petting-zoo-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/346216\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramapo police nab emu after breaking out of local petting zoo \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in New York managed to wrangle an escaped emu that broke out of its petting zoo. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/RamapoPD\/posts\/pfbid02jHvt9CekYULVnTRXxABfzW76YzDM88kLF5CeSauuHyTAuXQpMmLJfRaRRi9t3BvUl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Town of Ramapo Police Department<\/a> shared photos over the weekend of the unusual capture to its Facebook page after the animal&#8217;s brief taste of freedom. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don\u2019t know why the chicken crossed the road, but the emu crossed the road because Sgt. Anton didn\u2019t give it an option,&#8221; the post jokingly read. <\/p>\n<p>Officers used a drone to track the &#8220;feathered fugitive&#8221; from above while a team on the ground safely corralled the bird near what appears to be a school. The bird was returned to the petting zoo without any injuries. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No injuries, no citations, and no word yet on whether it plans to escape again,&#8221; the department wrote. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/emu.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in New York managed to wrangle an escaped emu that broke out of its petting zoo. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1457,9,11,10],"class_list":["post-346216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-animals","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}