Why Did the Goat Cross the Bridge? Tuscaloosa Police Want to Know

It sounds like the setup for a grade school joke, but police in Tuscaloosa want to know why a goat crossed one of the busiest roads in the county after rescuing the wayward billy on Saturday.

According to a post on social media, the goat was first spotted running past Billy's Sports Grill on Main Avenue in Northport before it trotted across the Lurleen B. Wallace bridge - the six-lane highway crossing over the Black Warrior River - before arriving in Tuscaloosa.

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Animal control officers were able to wrangle the creature on Seventh Street and said he was unharmed but tired after the dangerous odyssey.

The officer who roped the goat grew up on a Greene County farm and this wasn't his first rodeo, a police spokeswoman said.

Anyone missing the goat can contact the police department at 205-349-2121.

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