3rd Zebra in 3 years loose on Atlanta highways

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Circus zebra leads police on wild chase

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/circus-zeb...ice-312266.html

By Kristi E. Swartz

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A zebra from the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus escaped his handler and led police on a chase through downtown Atlanta Thursday afternoon.

The black-and-white striped animal was spotted all over town -- in the parking lot near the Sam Nunn Federal Building, near Centennial Olympic Park, CNN and on the Downtown Connector. He was finally captured on the interstate near the Grady Curve. According to witnesses he was galloping between lanes of traffic on the Downtown Connector before his capture.

Daniel Nance saw a westbound zebra zipping down Alabama Street near MARTA's Five Points station.

"All of a sudden a freaking zebra comes running down the street like a car. Five or six police cars were in hot pursuit. And a bunch of officers on foot. But then I got scared, thinking … what else is loose?" said a laughing Nance.

This isn't the first time a zebra has been out on the highway in recent years. A young zebra was found stranded and injured on I-75 in Butts County in April 2008. Then a zebra who usually lives on a farm across from Oxford College's Newton County campus was zebra-napped and deposited inside the college's Seney Hall as part of a prank.

Zebras stripes stick out on the highway or on campus, but they help them hide among tall grasses in Africa, especially from lions, the color-blind predator. "Each zebra has an individual stripe pattern, similar to a person, which has its own unique fingerprint, " Lisa Smith, Zoo Atlanta’s curator of large mammals told the AJC in 2008.

[Calypso 464]

Perhaps the zebra got tired of people finding him funny during circus performances. He doesn't want to be laughed at... or maybe running away is just one of his circus tricks.

Edited February 18, 2010 by Calypso

[Nagishkaw 510]

I'd run away too if I had to live my life as a captive.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Here is the story about the first zebra found on Atlanta's highways:

and here is the same zebra today:

[Leedah 22]

here is the link to the full story

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

More evidence of global warming. we need higher taxes...and soon.

[alienlovechild 75]

The downtown connector in Atlanta is fit for neither beast nor man.