Runaway emu shot to death by Pa. state police

[Common]

Sure you are, tough guy.

Well I have as good a chance at being a tough guy as you do being recognized as a never ending incessant frenzied Police Critic expert Which btw has no impact on those you are trying to impact the most lol

[Helena]

Here's a link to a short video of them tasing the bird before it got away. https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comment..._tased_on_the/

[Mister D]

This one is bad. The emu wasn't driving around with a bottle of tequila and it wasn't coughing on police officers in the midst of a pandemic. Bad police!

[Perianne]

Cops come into family yards and shoot their dog. I truly believe I would go get my shotgun and level a cop that did that to my dog.

[usaf81]

Are they dangerous?

Yes. They can be very dangerous. We had to kill a Mountain Lion that had wondered into the city about 20 mins before the streets would have been filled with little kids walking to school. You wouldn't believe the hate we got for shooting that animal. People think theres always a wildlife expert with a tranquilizer gun on call for instant response. Ive never once even seen an animal control guy with one and they take hours to respond anyway if you can even get ahold of one.

Theres no Vets with tranquilizer rifles. They wouldnt even know which end shoots on any kind of gun. Maybe a zoo but you think a wild animal that can jump 45' is just going to stand there and wait two hours for Marlin Perkins to show up from the zoo, if in fact you can even find someone.

Puma's take full grown joggers. A 10yo walking to school is a gimmee. And I'm sure theres all kinds of stupid stupid enough to get out of a car to pet or feed the ostrich, or emu, or whatever. Looks like a real fun loving bird.

[usaf81]

Cops come into family yards and shoot their dog. I truly believe I would go get my shotgun and level a cop that did that to my dog.

Ive always wondered if this is the same idiot with "shoot cop who shoot my dog" fantasies on the internet or if there are a lot of them.

Why would anyone even fantasize about that?

[Perianne]

Ive always wondered if this is the same idiot with "shoot cop who shoot my dog" fantasies on the internet or if there are a lot of them.

Why would anyone even fantasize about that?

You are right. I shouldn't have said it.

[pragmatic]

It was a judgement call. Rather doubt the cops took any joy in having to put the bird down.

Sounds like numerous efforts were made in trying to capture the emu. Corralling with police cars. Tasers. No luck. If left on its own probability was high the animal would either have been killed on the highway, killed by dogs/coyotes/cats, or starved to death. Plus there was the issue of the distraction it was causing to the highway driver rubber necks.

https://news.sky.com/video/16-9-vide...-road-11987904

[Perianne]

Didn't antifa cause worse traffic problems than that emu?

[The Xl]

This is what happens when we have a system that just sort of lets cops do what they want. If the ones who don't value human life get away with murder, then of course they're going to kill animals without hesitation.