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Bodycam shows Oklahoma police searching for someone yelling for 'help' but find screaming goat

The department wrote in a Facebook post: “You really can’t say it was that baaad of a call.”

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ENID, Oklahoma — Officers in Oklahoma who thought they were responding to a person yelling for help on Monday found a goat instead.

Police in Enid at first walked slowly and cautiously through the grassy, wooded area of a farm seeking the source of faint cries in the distance.

“That's a person,” one of the officers said to the other on a video that has been widely shared from a Facebook post by the police department in the city about 70 miles northwest of Oklahoma City.

Sometimes a call can really get your goat. Yesterday, Officer David Sneed and Officer Neal Storey responded to a report of someone heard yelling for help. Upon arriving, the officers began walking toward the faint sound of someone yelling. As they got closer, Officer Sneed could hear a distinct yell for “help.” Running toward the sound, the two soon discovered their damsel in distress was a very upset goat, who the farmer explained, had been separated from one of his friends. Thank you, gentlemen. Your swift actions (although in the end not necessary) are appreciated by us all. All in all, you really can’t say it was that baaad of a call.
Posted by Enid Police Department on Tuesday, May 9, 2023

The distressing noise that sounded like human cries for help escalated as officers David Sneed and Neal Storey began running to help who they thought was perhaps a person trapped under farm equipment.

Instead, it was a goat.

“That’s a goat? ... from a long distance it sounds it sounds like help," Sneed asked through laughter.

“The farmer said he had two male goats in the barn, and he took one out and he wasn't happy,” according to police spokesperson Cass Rains.

Now the town and the police department are enjoying the tale of the rescue that wasn't.

All in all, as the department wrote: “You really can’t say it was that baaad of a call.”

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