Video shows sheep on the lam eluding police officers
By Anthony Bettin
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ZUMBROTA, Minnesota (WCCO) — A pair of southern Minnesota police officers found themselves chasing a wily and wooly escapee Monday night.
The Zumbrota Police Department shared video of two of its officers trying to capture a sheep in a residential neighborhood. The body camera footage shows it happened around 8:30 p.m.
“The sheep proved four legs are superior to two and its wool immune to the effects of a taser,” the department said.
The officers thought they had the sheep caught when they confined it to a fenced-in yard. However, in a stroke of shear genius, the animal charged right through the fence.
“Well, that was a good idea,” one of the officers said after the sheep’s successful gambit.
It’s unclear where the sheep came from — Zumbrota city code prohibits the keeping of sheep, except in agricultural zones. Keeping a sheep in a non-agricultural zone carries a $50 fine.
This is apparently not the first time police in Zumbrota have dealt with a sheep on the lam. In 2018, the department posted about another f-ewe-gitive. It’s not known if that sheep was ever apprehended.
Zumbrota is about 24 miles north of Rochester in southeastern Minnesota.
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