Kicker: Lemur on the lam

NICK EICHER, HOST: Police in Springfield, Missouri went on a wild goose chase last week or something.

It was definitely wild, but not a goose. It was a lemur. Yeah, someone called it in and officers gave chase using just a towel as a substitute net:

AUDIO: I grab his tail? I don’t know. Sorry, Bud. Oh! We got this, Franchi.

After a few fits and starts and huffs and puffs, they finally surrounded the at-large primate. And they got ’er done.

AUDIO: There you go! 3-19, we got the lemur if you want to contact the appropriate services.

Video shows the lemur snuggled up in the towel as he (or she), nobody asked, as the lemur went to animal control.

But the family who’d kept him? Sorry, not allowed.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: City ordinance 18-13: no one can keep a wild or exotic animal.

EICHER: There ya go! It’s The World and Everything in It.

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