{"id":242690,"date":"2026-07-13T23:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242690\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T23:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T23:51:08","slug":"pennsylvania-police-find-goat-running-through-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/242690\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania police find goat running through traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPolice in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, are trying to locate the owner of a black-and-white goat that was found running through traffic over the weekend.  The North Whitehall Township Police Department said the goat was caught and is currently being housed by a local farmer until its original owner comes forward to claim it.  Social media users have pointed out the goat\u2019s seemingly mischievous expression in a photo shared by police, where it appears to be sticking its tongue out.  Some have suggested the goat might simply be panting from all the running.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tNORTH WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Police in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, are trying to locate the owner of a black-and-white goat that was found running through traffic over the weekend.  <\/p>\n<p>The North Whitehall Township Police Department said the goat was caught and is currently being housed by a local farmer until its original owner comes forward to claim it.  <\/p>\n<p>Social media users have pointed out the goat\u2019s seemingly mischievous expression in a photo shared by police, where it appears to be sticking its tongue out.  <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\" aspect-ratio-original lazyload lazyload-in-view\" alt=\"police in north whitehall township, pennsylvania, are trying to locate the owner of a black-and-white goat that was found running through traffic over the weekend.\" title=\"Police in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, are trying to locate the owner of a black-and-white goat that was found running through traffic over the weekend.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/65e47c8a-5332-49f2-b690-a42bae5c07e0.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tHearst OwnedNorth Whitehall Township\t<\/p>\n<p>Some have suggested the goat might simply be panting from all the running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in North Whitehall Township, Pennsylvania, are trying to locate the owner of a black-and-white goat that was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104038,38900,104039,104042,104044,3656,104037,12120,104043,539,28,30,29,27421,11520,13894,104040,7852,104045,104041,104046,1704,2832],"class_list":["post-242690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-black-and-white-goat","tag-goat","tag-housed-by-a-local-farmer","tag-local-farmer","tag-mischievous-expression","tag-north-whitehall-township","tag-north-whitehall-township-police-department","tag-owner","tag-owner-goat","tag-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-pennsylvania-police","tag-photo","tag-running","tag-running-through-traffic","tag-search","tag-social-media-user","tag-social-media-users","tag-tongue","tag-traffic","tag-weekend"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}