Escaped emu takes owner and police on 20-mile chase in Tennessee
A local man's pet emu escaped and prompted a slow-speed police chase to capture the giant bird. A city-wide manhunt. A police chase down the main street. Social media sites filled with locals describing what they had just witnessed. While these are usually the tell-tale signs of crisis, the small city of Harriman, Tennessee, witnessed a different kind of community-wide commotion on Wednesday when a local man's pet emu escaped and prompted a slow-speed police chase to capture the giant bird. In this screen grab from a video, an emu leads police on a slow-speed chase in Harriman, Tenn., on April 12, 2023. Steven McDaniel "People were calling in that it was in their yard, and the first part of the morning, officers would go check and wouldn't see him," Harriman police chief Baron Tapp said. "And then somebody else would call and say, 'Hey, the Emu is in my yard now' or 'It's going over here over there.'" The emu at the center o...