and now for something completely different

There are two... Emu's running wild in the twin cities.

https://www.upi.com/Residents-document-second-emu-on-the-loose-in-Minnesota/7831510069394/

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/10/27/Minnesota-town-rallying-to-capture-fugitive-emu-Dork/9261509109816/?st_rec=7831510069394

One is camping out in a field near my house and noone can catch it....  Film at 11.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War

A year after I moved out of Columbus the  Zanesville Zoo Break occurred. I was sad I couldn't go exotic animal hunting in Ohio. I lived right up the road from Zanesville for a few months when I first started working at that MRO facility.

Follow it around until it lays an egg they're good eating. Just be careful because they're stupid and ill tempered (source: I had a family member that raised them in the 90's)

In the 1990's Emu ranching very nearly became a thing in east Texas.  When all the people that bought breeding pairs at ridiculous prices realized that they were never going to sell the meat, a whole lot of fences "mysteriously " got cut in the middle of the night.  Anyone with a .22 and a lack of fear o' the Sheriff could fill their freezer from the road pretty easily. If you like your hamburgers and meatloaf rather red and lean it isn't bad. :)

I was hoping for some breaking gnus. 

I'm putting some Emu Oil on my ankle right now.  Bring 'em on!

In central AR, in the mid '90s there was a big "emu boom," a lot of farms, and wanna-be-farmettes were getting into the emu game.  Then by the late '90s early '00s the "emu bubble" burst.  Market was saturated, and emus were basically worthless.  A lot of folks just opened their gates, and turned them loose.  Several folks had the random "wild" emu sighting for a few years afterwards.

My grandpa was mowing hay one day, old open top IH 806 with a rotary disc mower behind it,  he had a "wild" emu appear from the woods, and take an interest in what he was doing.  I wish that I was there to see it, grandpa mowing hay, and an emu lapping circles around the tractor.

I really thought we'd wind up with "wild" alpacas too, but I guess the market for them must have stabilized.