Crime & Safety

From The You Can't Make It Up Files: Donkey Gets A Police Escort

What are you looking at? This is totally normal. Haven't you ever seen a donkey getting a police escort home?

WATERFORD, CT — Who knows, maybe it was the donkey?

Because sometimes, cop Facebook pages are at once hysterical and eye-popping, here's the latest from Waterford.

So a donkey was loose on Vauxhall Street Extension and police said, "rather than walk it back in the rain (you know us cops melt in the rain) the officer used the other officers present to protect it from oncoming traffic and then slowly guided it back home."

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