Animal watch
The Irish Independent (registration required) reports that an emu escaped from a wildlife sanctuary in Londonderry, and they finally got it back. That was probably not fun. Several years ago, I was in Brno, in the Czech Republic. I was in the city zoo shortly before closing, when I saw some deer-like creature loose. My Czech phrase book inexplicably did not include “you have an animal on the loose” in it, and the staff I found spoke no English, so I got some good practice in the game of charades. They caught it, but I don’t know if it could kick like an emu.