police in Firestone, Colorado<\/a>, were alerted to an unusual road hazard interrupting the flow of traffic \u2014 a large, wayward beaver. The animal had apparently wandered from a nearby wetland and was attempting to cross a busy street.<\/p>\nTo the beaver\u2019s credit, he appeared to be using a crosswalk by the time officers arrived at the scene. Even so, the busy street posed a serious risk.<\/p>\n
After police blocked the street to avoid him getting hit by a car, they then attempted to escort him to safety. As body camera footage of the incident shows, however, the beaver was less than fully compliant:<\/p>\n
In the end, after some pleading on the part of the officers, the beaver was convinced to head back to safer ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cNever have I ever,\u201d one of the officers can be heard saying.<\/p>\n
Fortunately, aside from showing some stubbornness, the beaver appeared to be in good health, likely having used drainage pipes to navigate under roads before attempting to actually cross one.<\/p>\n
In this incident, local police were diligent in keeping residents safe \u2014 including those with leathery tails.<\/p>\n
\u201c[W]e\u2019re always happy to help \u2014 whether it\u2019s a serious emergency, a community concern, or an unexpectedly stubborn wildlife encounter,\u201d the Firestone Police Department wrote<\/a>. \u201cWe\u2019ll be here when you need us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a standoff that no one saw coming. Earlier this week, police in Firestone, Colorado, were alerted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":645602,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[5354,616,79,615,4798,613,201,3756],"class_list":["post-645601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-beavers","tag-daily-dodo","tag-science","tag-standard","tag-stephen-messenger","tag-the-dodo","tag-wildlife","tag-wildlife-encounters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=645601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/645602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=645601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=645601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}