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Getting his goat

This nanny clearly got a policeman's goat when he had to handcuff her after she was caught leading a flock down a busy main road.

Hapless police didn't have a clue how to herd the goats back to their farm and so cuffed them until owner Uwe Stiller, 50, arrived in Bielefeld, Germany, to collect them.

They were called when rush-hour motorists ground to a halt after the beasts escaped from a nearby farm and went walkabout.

"We're not farmers and we don't know about animals. But we do know about handcuffing troublemakers so that's what we did," said one officer.

Austrian Times

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