A Little Zap Zap for Plop Plop

Why do cops insist on subduing Emus with Tasers? All you have to do is put a sock over its face. Well, Plop Plop the Emu found out the hard way what happens when you don’t follow police orders.

From the AP here:

Bay County Sheriff’s deputies were forced to use a Taser to subdue an escaped emu named Plop-Plop. The large female bird escaped from a farm last weekend and on Monday, she holed up with some horses and goats in a pen.

When deputies arrived, the emu “went kind of crazy,” said Sheriff’s deputy Randolph Grob.

The deputies didn’t want the bird to hurt itself or them, so the used the Taser stun gun to immobilize Plop-Plop.

The emu was brought to the Bay County Animal Control Center, where she has made a full recovery.

This seems to happen quite often. I wrote about a similar story here, where the taser didn’t work and they had to gun the flightless dopey looking goober down with 5 shotgun blasts.  But in the cops’ defense, they thought it was black.  They fed the corpse of that bird to the Homeless.