Goat caught after week-long spree in Birmingham area after escape
A goat that became locally famous during a week on the loose in the Birmingham area after escaping from its owner’s pickup, was finally caught today.
Levite Jewish Community Center posted on their Facebook page, “We are pleased to report that — after an hour-long pursuit around the LJCC campus — staff and members helped Billy the Goat’s owner peacefully apprehended the handsome-but-wiley [sic] fugitive.” The post added that the goat, “is now back in the hands of his owner,” Obed Kameta, a 31-year-old truck driver from Calera.
According to a report by AL.com’s Howard Koplowitz, around 8:30 a.m. Monday Birmingham police responded to a report of a goat in the 800 block of Montclair Road. They goat escaped after Kameta purchased it for $300 from a seller he’d bought goats from before. “When I met him, we made the transaction and I put [the goat] into my truck,” Kameta told AL.com Friday.
After escaping, the goat was seen around multiple Birmingham Metro Area cities, including Mountain Brook and Irondale. The goat eluded capture, including a Mountain Brook encounter is which a shirtless man dove after the goat like he was trying to make an open-field football tackle but whiffed. The goat was briefly corralled twice, only to escape again.
On Friday, Kameta told AL.com, “I just want the goat to come back home safe.” Now it looks like that wish has been granted.