200 Goats Broke Loose And Ran Free Through A Residential Neighborhood

A serene neighborhood in northern California was overrun by a herd of about 200 goats this week, resulting in what one resident called “pure chaos.” It happened in San Jose’s Silver Creek neighborhood on May 12, when the goats busted out of their enclosure and ran wild through the streets.

Zach Roelands caught the liberated livestock on video as they were running through a street of the affluent suburb, stopping to munch on flowers in someone’s lawn as they went. His clip makes Silver Creek look like ground zero for the cutest monster movie you’ve ever seen.

“This is the craziest thing to happen all quarantine,” he wrote in his post, which has been liked more than 111,000 times already. The video itself has been viewed more than 3 million times!

Obviously the internet is loving this band of furry fugitives, but we’re not sure the people who were sitting front-row for the running of the goats enjoyed it quite as much. In a follow-up tweet, Roelands revealed that the goats “ate all the plants and pooped all over the grass” before they were herded back and safely housed behind a fence.

The great escape actually represented a short vacation for the goats, who were brought to Silver Creek to do some important work. According to the San Jose Mercury News, the animals come in every year to eat dry brush off the nearby hills in order to cut down the risk of a wildfire.

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