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Phoenix woman left heartbroken after her escaped pet EMU 'Richard' died after cops lassoed him, strung him up by the neck and wrestled with him while trying to put him in their squad car
2023-10-03
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Another cop/neck death!
  • A woman from Mesa, Arizona is devastated after her pet emu died after police officers tried to restrain it using a rope and force it into their patrol car

  • Video sees officers struggling with the unusual pet with a deputy seen having his hands around the bird's neck at one point trying to drag it into the vehicle

  • Moments later the six-and-a-half-year-old pet emu appeared lifeless with severe damage to its neck despite the bird not having displayed any aggression
Police officers are not trained like zookeepers. They can’t be expected to know how to handle something that unusual.
Posted by:Skidmark

#16  #15 No. More like lamb.
On the other hand, frog legs do taste like chicken.
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-10-03 14:09  

#15  But does it taste like chicken?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2023-10-03 13:52  

#14  Isn't getting a live Emu in the back of your SUV a bit like a dog catching the tire?

Especially, you fucking city grown cunts, if you don't secure the feet. Bind the feet, and wait for the proper tools and knowledge you goddammed retards.

I'd say a proper punishment is to put these officers in a basketball court sized cage with a wild Emu and recreate this apprehension.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2023-10-03 13:37  

#13  Just cops being tough on crime.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-10-03 12:45  

#12  Cops agency never ends. Can they be expected to not get mixed up with things they dont know how to handle? No. They suck ass. They do whatever they want to do. Lack of training, not trained, who cares. Saint Cops. They'll do it with best intentions and still kill/maim/damage without or little consequence.

Bastards could have called an Animal Warden, a Park Ranger, or a freaking vet. Or maybe, thinking out of the box, find the owner to handle the situation.

To think an adult male can put hands on an animal and to not think they know they are hurting the animal and causing it harm insults our intelligence.
Posted by: mossomo   2023-10-03 12:41  

#11  Limu Emu? Where is Doug?
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2023-10-03 11:35  

#10  #6 - I heard that in Clouseau's voice
Posted by: Frank G   2023-10-03 09:03  

#9  Police bodycam video of cops arresting Le'Keian Woods, 24, is released as Sheriff's office says use of force was justified during brutal arrest where officers hit him 17 times and slammed his head on the floor while he was handcuffed
Posted by: Skidmark   2023-10-03 09:03  

#8  They should have called the twit from the General Insurance ads. He'd have known how to deal.
Posted by: ed in texas   2023-10-03 08:26  

#7  The emu called shotgun.
Posted by: Super Hose   2023-10-03 08:16  

#6  Does your emu bite?
Posted by: SteveS   2023-10-03 08:03  

#5  I never realized putting a pet emu in the back of a squad car was de rigueur
Posted by: DooDahMan   2023-10-03 07:09  

#4  Mind you, there used to be a Mangolian grill in Tel Aviv - I still remember their emu shishlik 30 years later (but maybe it was the company).
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-10-03 06:29  

#3  /\ Don't be fooled, they're out there.
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-10-03 06:25  

#2  Google "emu claw" then ask yourself how you would have handled it.

Side Story.
Back in the 1990's there was short craze to raise Emu's for restaurant & Supermarket food. But the EMU market died after a few years.

In North GA.& Western NC. a number of EMU Farms just turned the unsellable birds loose and took the tax write-off.

Later that year a few Metro-Atlanta City Deer/Elk/Bear hunters in the northern GA/WNC mountains, saw them and had the papers & media reciting their tales of seeing Giant Mutated Quail or Birds.

"Hunter discovers Dinosaur Birds in North Ga. Western NC Mts."
There were demands for the EPA to find the Bio-Hazard causing the Giant Bird mutation. There was even demands to list and protect the newly discovered Dinosaur Birds under the Endangered Species Act.
Posted by: NN2N1   2023-10-03 06:17  

#1  ELM?
Posted by: Grom the Reflective   2023-10-03 02:41  

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