Police Tasered and Handcuffed ... an Emu!

Forget tranquilizer darts - that's the stuff of Hollywood. Real police officers use taser, even on a wayward emu:

Authorities in Mississippi said they had to handcuff an emu and shock it with a Taser to remove the ostrich-like flightless bird from a roadway.

Oh, and they used handcuffs, too. I'm assuming they meant emu legcuffs: Link (Sadly, no photo of the cuffed emu)

Dont they have a thing called animal control for things like this?

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Fish, you would think. In the very small town I grew up, there was an animal control officer (for quite a while, my grandfather held that job), so you'd think in a larger city, they'd have a department of people trained to handle these problems.

I don't think my grandfather ever had to deal with emus. The occasional stray horse or such, plus the usual dogs and cats, but I don't recall him mentioning any emus.

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Animal Control is part of the Sheriffs department. They are county cops.

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I'll bet Michael Parkinson would have paid to taser Emu.

If that seems overly crpytic...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqrg_VCPgAQ

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