Posted on 06/08/2025 4:02:06 PM PDT by Ezekiel
A pet zebra has finally been captured after he escaped - sparking a week-long manhunt across Tennessee.
Dramatic video footage captured the moment Ed the Zebra was airlifted by a helicopter while wrapped in a net rocking side to side.
'Ed was airlifted and flown by helicopter back to a waiting animal trailer,' the sheriff's office said in a statement.
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He was eventually found on Sunday when aviation crews tracked down the animal in a pasture near the Christiana community, according to the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office.
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"A horse is a horse, unless of course..."
“Manhunt” ping!
The rescuer certainly earned his stripes.
Yes. They needed to look up “manhunt” in a dictionary...and didn’t.
“Ed the Zebra”
Let that be a lesson!
Poor Wilbur must have been stressed, of course.
Not sure you’re correct. It’s not that black and white
So happy the poor Zebra didn’t hey killed by some moron.
When I saw this picture posted on the thread, I thought "Yup. That will bring traffic to a standstill!
My wife and I were driving on some winding hills up in Vermont some years ago, no destination, just cruising around. They are a bunch of Lefties up there, but it is a beautiful state.
It was a sunny day, sun getting lower in the sky, and we come around a bend in the road that curved around a fenced in hill. We both looked up and this is what we saw:
We we both taken aback, and of course I had to pull over and back up...did we just see that?
I have always used the saying "When you hear hooves in America, you think horses, not zebras."
I remember thinking: Well, that blows that all to Hell!
I knew about moving sidewalks, but it looks like we’ve got moving crosswalks as well!
i think a big bill is coming to the owner.
It turns out the zebra had been hiding in plain sight at a local Footlocker store.
HA!
Giraffes, Zebras and the Duck-Billed Platypus were all created when God was a little too far into the Mead, methinks! ;)
“Heh heh. I like the way you think; I'm going to be watching you …” 😀
;-)
And they weren’t just horsing around either.
I’ve always heard Zebras have a nasty bite and a ferocious rear kick. So, if you get anywhere near them, best to watch both fore and aft at once. A tranquilizing dart was probably used to snare him up.
Potential owners of these exotic pets should have to pass a few tests to show that they have sufficient fencing and a good basic knowledge of that species. That owner should not get this Zebra right back, because “Ed’ will just escape again.
Ed has not accepted his new home. Maybe he misses the hub-bub of New York or Toledo, Ohio.
Hahahahaha...that’s what I see whenever I imbibe too many adult beverages!
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