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Video: Runaway Emu Leads Sheriff’s Corporal on 45-Minute Chase
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Runaway Emu Leads Sheriff’s Corporal on 45-Minute Chase
An emu named Tina escaped from a farm in Florida last Friday. Body camera footage captured a sheriff’s office corporal chasing the large bird and eventually putting it in handcuffs.
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I’ll be honest with you, I’ve never handcuffed an emu before, but they’ll fit around his legs and that’ll keep him from kicking. In you go. There you go. Oh, look — look who’s got you now. Don’t move, don’t move. Not yet, not yet, not yet. Don’t look at me that way — hey, hey, don’t bite me. Don’t even think about it. Don’t do it. Are you done resisting? I don’t want to have to charge you. Don’t talk back to me. Now you’re behaving, aren’t you? Secured.
An emu named Tina escaped from a farm in Florida last Friday. Body camera footage captured a sheriff’s office corporal chasing the large bird and eventually putting it in handcuffs.
By Jorge Mitssunaga
January 15, 2026