April 10 (UPI) -- Police in Massachusetts rounded up an escaped emu that was identified as a repeat-offender belonging to an officer's father.
Barnstable police responded Wednesday morning to the area of Wild Way, near Santuit-Newtown Road, where an emu was spotted running loose.
Nicholas Giammarco, an officer with the Yarmouth Police Department, received a call from another officer asking if he knew the bird.
"My dad has a farm in Marstons Mills just off Santuit-Newtown Road, so I knew this had to be Walter," Giammarco told WHDH-TV. "I immediately called my dad, who was still asleep, to let him know Walter was on the run again and I was headed out to try and get him."
A witness captured video of the emu wandering the area while police blocked traffic.
