WRONG-WAY EMU FOUND ON FREEWAY.Byline: PATRICIA PATRICIA Practical Algorithm To Retrieve Information Coded In Alphanumeric PATRICIA Proving and Testability for Reliability Improvement of Complex Integrated Architectures PATRICIA PApilloma TRIal Cervical cancer In young Adults FARRELL AIDEM Staff Writer ACTON -- A problem for emus is they can't fly, so one of these 5-foot-tall birds had to opt Monday for the freeway. And it likely ruffled ruf·fle 1 n. 1. A strip of frilled or closely pleated fabric used for trimming or decoration. 2. A ruff on a bird. 3. a. A ruckus or fray. b. Annoyance; vexation. 4. some commuters' feathers when a California Highway Patrol officer ran a traffic break to help corral the Aussie native as it headed north in the southbound lanes of the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . "They impounded it," CHP CHP Chapter CHP Combined Heat and Power CHP California Highway Patrol CHP Cumhuriyet Halk Partisi (Turkish: Republican People's Party) CHP Chemical Hygiene Plan (OSHA) CHP Community Health Plan Officer John Lutz said of the work by a trio of colleagues and a passer-by with a horse trailer. The brown-and-tan emu -- flightless flightless see ratite. and second in size only to the ostrich -- was spotted about 10:45 a.m. on the freeway near Escondido Canyon Road. It was outside the guardrail initially, but found a break in the barrier where it entered traffic, Lutz said. "We were dispatched to a big bird -- not Big Bird -- walking on the shoulder on the 14 Freeway," Lutz said. Officers Eric Bejar, Janet Cooper and Eric Stevenson and a motorist hauling a horse trailer managed to stop traffic, corral the bird into the trailer and transport it to an animal shelter in Castaic. Lutz said one officer has seen emu farms in the area and that this likely was an escapee escapee A popular term for older relatives of those at risk for Huntington's disease, who didn't develop the disease. See Huntington's disease. . "It wasn't cited," Lutz said. "It probably couldn't sign the citation anyway." pat.aidem@dailynews.com (661) 257-5251 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: This emu was found running along the Antelope Valley Freeway in Acton on Monday and was captured by California Highway Patrol officers. The emu is being kept at a Los Angeles County animal shelter. David Crane/Staff Photographer |
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