Maine police decline to press charges against goat that chased woman down street

Oakland police dealt with a different kind of suspect over the weekend -- a goat.Police wrote on Facebook that they responded to a call of a goat chasing a woman down a street."You really never know what you are going to encounter when responding to a call of a woman being chased down the street. Will it be nothing, could you be getting into a physical altercation? Well this suspect was a little of both," police wrote on Facebook.An officer "restrained" the goat using "freshly certified de-escalation skills," police wrote.The goat was returned to its owner -- and no charges were filed.

Oakland police dealt with a different kind of suspect over the weekend -- a goat.

Police wrote on Facebook that they responded to a call of a goat chasing a woman down a street.


"You really never know what you are going to encounter when responding to a call of a woman being chased down the street. Will it be nothing, could you be getting into a physical altercation? Well this suspect was a little of both," police wrote on Facebook.

An officer "restrained" the goat using "freshly certified de-escalation skills," police wrote.

The goat was returned to its owner -- and no charges were filed.