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Police chase runaway zebra in Atlanta
Feb 19, 2010, 16:19 GMT
Washington - Police chased a runaway zebra though rush-hour traffic in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, news reports said.
Several police cars and motorcycles pursued the scared animal for several kilometres before police was able to capture it, creating rush-hour havoc on the city's motorways, CBS Atlanta reported.
The animal, named Lima, which was spotted all over town, had escaped from an outdoor enclosure of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Motorists and pedestrians where treated to unusual scenes, the local Atlanta Journal Constitution reported.
'It was wild,' Prapik Jani, a restaurant manager, said. 'I thought I was seeing things.'
'All of a sudden, a freaking zebra comes running down the street like a car,' another witness was quoted as saying. 'Five or six police cars were in hot pursuit. And a bunch of officers on foot. But then I got scared, thinking ... what else is loose?'
The zebra suffered some minor cuts on its hooves from the long run, but was otherwise fine, the circus said.
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