Here’s one you don’t see every day: a goat rescued from an overpass in a big city. The goat, possibly named Chug, may have gotten away from a Missouri farm in February and made its way to Kansas City. Then, it somehow managed to get onto a little concrete ledge jutting out from the bridge’s assistance pillar.
On Monday, the day of the bold rescue and the solar eclipse, Tori Fugate with the KC Family Pet Project, which is currently looking after the goat, told AP News: “Forget a solar eclipse. We were on goat watch.”
After calls starts coming in about a goat high up on an overpass in Kansas City, people and rescuers jumped into action. According to AP News, a worried resident got a rope around the goat’s neck in an effort to assist it to safety, however that nearly turned sour when the goat jumped from the ledge in a panic and almost hung itself.
Fugate informed AP that firemens acted rapidly to produce slack in the line, causing the goat to fall the rest of the way to the ground (about 15 feet), landing on a bed of padding put there by very first responders. The goat made it through with no injuries.
However why was it there? Is it Down?
The goat’s possible owners are driving into Kansas City today to recognize whether this mysterious goat is, in fact, their missing animal.
This Fox video does not reveal all the drama, but it does provide a visual for just how precarious this goat’s position was:
Here’s one you don’t see every day: a goat rescued from overpass in a city. The goat made it through, however things worsened before they got better.