Considering the fact that the name "Gotham" derives from Old English for "homestead where goats are kept," we're actually surprised we don't get more incidents like this: a runaway goat was spotted running around Fulton Avenue just before 1 a.m. last night in Bedford-Stuyvesant. As one onlooker told ABC: “First, me, I was like, ‘Oh snap, a goat.’” Check out video below.
"I was just walking across the street to get some Popeye’s, I come around the corner and the next thing I know I see a goat coming around my way, galloping toward me,” a witness told CBS. “Banging his head against two doors, to no avail, then it started running ’cause the cops were after it." Police were called in by passersby, and the goat was eventually cornered close to Interfaith Medical Center.
At that point, hospital security guard Seydou Ndiaye, who was once a goat herder in West Africa, grabbed a rope, formed a lasso, and tried to corral the animal: “I told them ‘Do not harm the animal, it’s an easy animal, it’s very friendly but it just was a little scared,’” Ndiaye told CBS. After hiding behind cars and darting from cops, Ndiaye was able to grab him by the horns.
Officers brought the goat to the ASPCA in Manhattan; it's still unclear where the animal came from. This has been your daily reminder that you'll never know when you'll need a goat herder around—but one day you will.
