Catch a Llama if you can

Anytime a newspaper article describes a llama as "mysterious," I can't help but eagerly reading on. It turns out that the latest llama on the lam story comes to us all the way from Ireland. Under the catchy headline, "Irish police seek runaway llama in County Wicklow," we find out that at the crux of the issue is that Irish motorists do not normally encounter an escaped llama on the side of the road, and they have been consistently phoning in the anomaly to the police.

The police, likely tipsy, and lacking the proper training, have had difficulty capturing the llama, even though he is reported to be grazing along the side of the road, and has been seen "peeping into passing cars." Again, this seems doubtful. Reading on....

Police seized five llamas and three goats from a traveling circus last month. It was reported that they were being mistreated, and the circus owners were asked to pay a fine to release them. The animals miraculously disappeared a few days after their seizure.

A llama miraculously disappearing? Sacrilege! Although the police may have thought their heavy workload of feeding and more importantly, brushing the seized llamas, was eased by their disappearance, clearly they are making more work for themselves now that they must recapture them in the rugged countryside.

Also...loving the llama file photo they came up with for this story:

Stand proud escaped circus llamas!