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from The New Yorker<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Running of the Llamas<\/h1>\n

BY\u00a0HANNAH GOLDFIELD<\/a><\/h3>\n

\"A<\/a>A mother llama and her baby were recorded live as they fled down a Phoenix highway today after escaping their handlers.<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>CREDIT\u00a0<\/span>PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY ABC15.COM<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015, when someone G-chats you to ask, \u201cWatching the llama cam?\u201d you might think little of it. You might even roll your eyes\u2014twenty-four-hour live-streams of puppies or zoo animals are old news, and llamas, you might think, are not\u00a0especially\u00a0compelling. They just sort of stand there, chewing their cud and giving onlookers the side eye. The most exciting thing about them is the threat of loogies being hawked if you get too close. But when your G-chat correspondent follows up with \u201ctwo llamas on the loose,\u201d your interest is piqued. You click on a link to the Web site of an ABC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona.’<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to describe the particular thrill of watching, live, the two llamas who were chased down a desert highway today, for the better part of two hours, by law-enforcement officers and concerned citizens. The obvious comparison was to O. J. Simpson in his white Bronco; \u201cBonnie and Clyde\u201d meets \u201cHomeward Bound\u201d also came to mind. The llamas, a mother and her baby, had been a visiting attraction at an assisted-living facility for seniors in Sun City, outside of Phoenix, earlier in the day. The details are fuzzy, but somehow, as their handlers loaded them into a trailer to head home to the llama farm, they made a break for it. It wasn\u2019t long before they were traversing major thoroughfares, often against traffic, followed closely by a news helicopter above and a gaggle of would-be captors on the ground.<\/p>\n

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from The New Yorker The Running of the Llamas BY\u00a0HANNAH GOLDFIELD A mother llama and her baby were recorded live as they fled down a Phoenix highway today after escaping their handlers.\u00a0CREDIT\u00a0PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY ABC15.COM In 2015, when someone G-chats you to ask, \u201cWatching the llama cam?\u201d you might think little of it. You might even […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}