Emus In The News 2014

Pretty much anytime I see emus in the news, I read about them.  Hey, it's more interesting than reading about war and politicians arguing about taxes.  During the last month or so, I was saddened by reading about Mary the emu's murder, I enjoyed reading about a family who enjoys having an emu for a backyard pet much to their neighbors' annoyance, I worried after reading about a heat wave in Australia that is killing emus, and I chuckled after reading yet another emu escapes news story (that happens so often it's the type of story that News Of The Weird would label "no longer weird"--my version of that label is not giving a link).  In any case, when you're out and about, watch out for large flightless birds from down under running around.  Personally, I've never just randomly run into one, but they seem to pop up in the news a lot anyway!

Emus In The News 6

In my continuing coverage of emus in the news, I bring you this emu who wandered onto a Florida highway and caused a traffic jam in October.  Maybe he thought he was supposed to fly south for the winter, but since emus can't fly, he was trying to hitch a ride.  His name is Taco.

No, I don't make this stuff up.

Free Emu!

And, now, the latest installment in our continuing series of "Emus In The News" (read the rest 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, though it appears about half the links have expired; emus news is pretty ephemeral, alas). We haven't had any of these since 2010, so I'm pretty excited. In this case, it's an escaped emu who has so exasperated its owner that he's giving the big bird away for free to anyone who can catch him.

I bet it's Funnybear.

Who buys an emu for a pet anyway? Did the guy think it was like a parrot? Emus are huge. Take a look below at this fellow I met in Australia. He was taller than me. A word of advice, kids, if your pet is taller or heavier than you, it's a good chance that you're its pet!