Kicker: A bleat for help

NICK EICHER, HOST: Last week, police took a distress call around a country road near Enid, Oklahoma. When the officers arrived, they heard something, but they weren’t quite sure what it was.

AUDIO: I think that’s a person. 

Officers David Sneed and Neal Storey thought they heard someone yelling for help. It was a few hundred yards away, hard to discern because of a dog barking in the background. They started running toward an outbuilding.

Body cam footage shows that as they got closer they could see the source of the cries: a very upset goat.

AUDIO: Hellllpppp. Heelllpppp.

The goat's owner explained the animal was upset because he’d been separated from one of his buddies.

GOAT: Heeellllpppp

OFFICER: From a long-distance it sounds like “help.”

Back at the station, the Enid P-D social media department had some fun with this one. What could’ve been a difficult situation turned out, and I quote, "not so baaaaaad."

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