World's Strangest » ostrich http://www.worldsstrangest.com Your source for the strangest things around! Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:12:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Police Tasered and Handcuffed … an Emu! http://www.worldsstrangest.com/neatorama/police-tasered-and-handcuffed-%e2%80%a6-an-emu/ http://www.worldsstrangest.com/neatorama/police-tasered-and-handcuffed-%e2%80%a6-an-emu/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:01:31 +0000 Stranger to the World http://www.worldsstrangest.com/neatorama/police-tasered-and-handcuffed-%e2%80%a6-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)

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