Essex police call off search for unicorn after concluding photo was of a goat

[dipsydoodle]

Police in Essex investigating reports of a unicorn being spotted in a field have called off the search and admitted that the photo they had received was “almost certainly a goat.”

The animal was seen near Earl Hall Drive in St Osyth, near Clacton-on-Sea, by a four year old girl on holiday with her parents. Lucy Jones saw a white animal with four legs in the distance, and a unicorn “was the first thing that came to mind.”

Essex Police said about 25 officers were called to where the animal was seen, including some specially trained in mythology and a slightly strange old man who swears he used to ride unicorns through the forest when he was a boy.

Officers decided to call off the search on Monday after no trace of a mythological, horse-like creature was found.

Read more: http://newsthump.com/2012/08/29/essex-police-call-off-search-for-unicorn-after-concluding-photo-was-of-a-goat/#ixzz251nz0wrZ

[2pooped2pop]

1. anyone remember when Barnum & Bailey Circus

used a goat with a fake horn and tried to pass it as a unicorn?
Probably back in the 70's or 80's.

[LeftishBrit]

2. Though I'm sure the one on the right sometimes THINKS she's the one on the left!

[T_i_B]

3. This pallaver was around St Osyth's

It's a lovely village on the Tendring peninsular. It would have been a very interesting place for an escaped lion as there's a deer park round there!

Part of me wonders about having an escaped lion on the loose in nearby (and notoriously snobby) Frinton-On-Sea.