I’m not sure how I’d react if I saw a UNICORN running down the street. I’d probably wonder if someone slipped me some acid, then try to capture the unicorn, kill it, and drink its silver blood to achieve immortality. Sorry. Too dark?
Anyway, a unicorn ACTUALLY got loose in Madera, California on Wednesday night. Technically it was a white pony with a HORN strapped to its head, and it escaped from a kid’s birthday party. But when it broke away and started running around town, no one knew that back story. They just saw a unicorn. So naturally the cops started getting confused calls about a unicorn on the loose. It even made it onto the highway.
So eventually the California Highway Patrol got involved, and used a HELICOPTER to track it down. And it STILL took them three-and-a-half HOURS to catch it. Which sounds like a lot, but that would be NOTHING if they were trying to catch a leprechaun. Leprechauns are way more wily than unicorns. Everyone knows that.
A woman named Sandra Boos owns the pony. The cops didn’t give her a citation, but told her they would if the unicorn got free again.
(Here’s a photo of the unicorn.)
When a caller reported a “unicorn-like” animal galloping down a road in Central Valley, officers assumed someone was high on drugs.Then they met Juliet — a 600-pound pony with a prosthetic horn.
Posted by Los Angeles Times on Friday, February 26, 2016
