Liberty the emu's adventure with liberation continues, except now, according to its owner, "He's in emu jail."
The critter jokingly named after the Liberty Mutual insurance pitchbird slipped out of its pen at an exotic animals ranch on South Nogales Highway overnight Thursday.
The next day gawkers photographed Liberty blocking traffic on the highway and peeking into a car window, near Aerospace Parkway and the entrances to a couple of big Tucson employers including Raytheon. The emu became a bit of a social media sensation here.
Just moseying down the highway, as an emu will, on a crisp Tucson morning.
Its owner, Tattoo Tattoo (that's his legal name "and the name on my driver's license," he says), had been driving all around the region Friday looking for him, but Liberty was elusive.
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Liberty the emu with its owner, Tattoo Tattoo, in happier times.
Tattoo says he's now heard that Liberty got shooed off the highway and took off onto Tohono O'odham reservation land near Desert Diamond Casino on Valencia Road.
From there, Tohono O'odham police reportedly caught him and took him to a tribal animal sanctuary. Tattoo thinks Liberty has been transferred to Arizona Game & Fish, where he hopes to pick him up Monday morning in his truck and trailer.
He guesses Liberty was about 2.5 miles from home when caught. "They just wander around like Eeyore all slow and depressed," he affectionately joked.
Watch an emu race through the Brookfield Zoo near Chicago, Illinois.
