The Lone Peak Police Department in Utah said officers were summoned on a report of a loose emu, but arrived to find the owner had already recaptured the flightless bird. Photo by scholty1970/Pixabay.com
Officers arrived on the scene, but discovered "Big Bird's owner had returned the bird to its cage," police said in a Facebook post.
Emus, native to Australia, are the second-largest birds in the world, after the ostrich.