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Emu’s pretty fast…

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April 3rd, 2015 by Ric Hanson

A routine patrol by a Pottawattamie County Sheriff’s Deputy culminated in a pursuit, but the subject of the chase got away. The Omaha World-Herald reports the subject in question, was an emu…a large, flightless bird.  Sgt. Chris Weber was patrolling southwest of Crescent Thursday morning when he stumbled across the bird.

Weber said he and fellow deputies followed the creature into a rock quarry and waited for its owner to arrive from Honey Creek. But he said the emu, believed to have been on the lam for a couple of days, pushed further into the hills, where the authorities could not follow.

When last seen, the emu was being chased by its owner.