Pet zebra escapes and brings Tennessee interstate to a standstill

ny post ^ | 06/03/2025 | Anthony Blair

[BenLurkin]

A pet zebra has escaped in Tennessee, stunning drivers as it repeatedly raced down residential streets — even bringing a busy interstate to a standstill.

The still-at-large animal was spotted several times across Rutherford County, southeast of Nashville, on Saturday, and sheriffs say the animal remains at large, unless its owner has found it and not reported it.

Dodging vehicles and narrowly avoiding getting hit, the pet caused havoc when it ran along a busy Greater Nashville interstate over the weekend.

The zebra broke loose on Saturday, just a day after its owner purchased it, the Rutherford County Sheriff’s Office said.

[Hyman Roth]

Tom and Helen Willis?

[dfwgator]

LOL, I saw that.

[wardaddy]

If it’s any consolation on a pasture they live twice as long and no gruesome death in the jaws of lions or crocs

[ReformedBeckite]

I live in Murfreesboro,TN (Middle of Tennessee) where this zebra is running loose, the local business are copying and pasting zebra on their web sites for their business claiming the zebra has visited them. Some pretty funny stuff. South of town were he probably is is a lot of woods and places really thick with cedar trees and brush so he won’t have any hard time fining places to hide if zebra’s would do that. They are spending a lot of time with those drones with heat seeking sensors looking for him, and now they got some dogs sniffing for him. Eventually they will find him, or some body will find him. He probably in some ones abandon barn eating hay those round bails of hail they store in some of those barns.

[Veto!]

Yep, relatively good news.

[BenLurkin]

Nice!

[Zack Attack]

The Zebra eventually turned itself in to two Black and Whites in pursuit, which it thinks are its parents.

[BFW]

Hopefully they were able to read the Zebras bar code, so it be returned to it’s owner ........