Runaway emus found miles from home in Minnesota

UPI ^ | 7/2/25 | Ben Hooper

[DallasBiff]

July 2 (UPI) -- A pair of emus escaped from their home at a Minnesota farm during a storm and turned up several miles from home.

Tom Halek said his emus, Sami and Ali, escaped from a partially-open gate on his Rush City property during weekend storms.

"I figured the way they can move, who knows where they'd end up," Halek told CBS Minnesota.

The emus were spotted near Rush Lake Road on Sunday before wandering miles from home and ending up in Chisago County.

"Calling all Emu owners... We did make calls to Liberty Mutual Insurance, this is not their LiMu Emu. It also isn't Kevin from the popular movie, Up, we verified that by calling Doug. So if you happen to know the owner of this Emu, please have them reach out to dispatch to let us know," the Chisago County Sheriff's Office said on social media.

[DPMD]

Liberty Bibberty.

[jimtorr]

The is an emu breeder farm about 3 miles from my house. We occasionally get emails to be on the look-out for runaway birds.

[Ezekiel]

"Somebody else in the area that owns emus also thought they were his, so he ran and he captured them, brought them home and he realized 'Wait a minute, these aren't mine.'"

They all look alike, or emu-late someone else's emu at your own risk?

I hope this guy is emmune from criticism. His buddies could really get some mileage out of the emusement factor.

It must have been an emutional remunion.

[GaltAdonis]

“…people raise Emus, for the meat?”

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Some health food stores sell it, so somebody must.
I was curious, I thought it might be yummy, so I tried it.
It’s not, in my opinion.

[SunkenCiv]

I laughed when I first saw the title of this one. :^)

[Ezekiel]

I marvel at the incredible worlds that exist out there.

Here's one where it's possible -- and perhaps it's even normal -- to accidentally round up the wrong emus on any given day.

They were miles from home, yet in same alternate emuniverse.

♫ I was born the runnin' kind
With leavin' always on my mind
Home was never home to me at any time
Every front door found me hopin'
I would find the back door open
There just had to be an exit
For the runnin' kind ♫

~ Merle Haggard, Poet of the Common Emu

[BarbM]

Hey Girls, Don't you find Doug handsome?

[Ezekiel]

Today I’ve been wandering around in the topic of the Milky Way.

Like that has anything to do with emus.

But then again, wouldn’t you know it —

“Emu in the Sky: The Gomeroi people between New South Wales and Queensland called the Milky Way Dhinawan, the giant Emu in the Sky that it stretches across the night sky.[56]”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way#Common_names

Not knowing if you knew already, I figured I’d leche know!

This does go a long way in explaining why they were on the run.

Isn’t that Wonderful? Now every time I see the Milky Way, I can close my eyes and think of Christmas.

Teacher says, ‘Every time a bell rings, an emu gets its wings.’

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