By Doha Madani -
NBC News
Residents of the Kansas City area, in the state of Kansas, discovered why the three wise men preferred to be transported by camel after one of these animals fled a local birth over the weekend.
According to the Bonner Spring City Police Department, officers and the Animal Control Service spent the entire Sunday trying to apprehend the animal that escaped Saturday night.
By the time the camel was captured by officers, he had already taken a walk down the road and visited some local residents. Bonner Spring Police Department
The camel was part of the montage of a
"
living
"
birth
that could be seen from vehicles as they passed the National Agricultural Center and the Hall of Fame.
At one point, the animal ran around a golf course,
triggering a golf cart chase in
which officers "learned that camels can run 40 miles per hour," the department reported.
When he was captured, he had taken a walk on the highway and visited some neighbors in the area.
“In what can only be described as a scene from a cop movie, Animal Control Officer Anthony jumped out of his vehicle and chased him on foot in Nettleton, where he was safely 'taken into custody' with a lasso. ”, Said the authorities on Facebook.
"Why isn't bonding taught in schools?" They said.
[A moose runs away and sneaks through a Canadian school window]
"The camel is reunited with its owners and will be doing camel stuff again," Bonner Springs police reported in another post on the social network.