Police chased an escaped sheep down a busy stretch of road.
It was caught by officers after cops received reports it was on the loose.
The sheep was seen running on the A158 in Horncastle, Lincolnshire yesterday and was "safely caught" and returned to the field from where it came by police.
LincolnshireLive reports some people made light of the unusual situation and said officers caught it before it could commit a "ram raid."
Officers also said "thank ewe" to the public that helped them to catch the sheep and return it to a field so that both the sheep and road users were safe.
Horncastle, Spilsby and Woodhall Spa Police announced the sheep rescue at 8.30pm on Thursday, October 6 on its Facebook page.
Some Facebook users thanked the police for their efforts to safely catch the sheep, whilst another person joked and said "that sheep was ruthless."
The A158 is a major route that heads from Lincoln in the west to Skegness on the East Coast and is 40 miles long.
In another unrelated incident, an escaped bull caused similar mayhem when it escaped in a Spanish city.
The Mirror reported how motorists were forced to brake and swerve in order to avoid the rampaging animal after he went on the run in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo.
Footage showed the large bull coming face to face with a coach, which had to divert around him.
The bull's run was filmed on police traffic cameras monitoring the Calle Munoz Degrain dual carriageway, with a binman trying to persuade him to leave the road.
The pair can be seen climbing up the steep road and weaving across all four lanes.
However the refuse collector did not have a lot of luck, and after getting to the junction at the end of the road, the bull then suddenly ran off back across the road again and off down another street.
He caused huge tailbacks in the process with the animal eventually coaxed into waiting in a cul-de-sac for police to arrive.
Because the animal was relatively placid, police were content to leave him there until the owner could be located and he then came to pick the animal up in a truck.
He was then taken back to the farm he had escaped from in La Manjoya, a nearby town.
Last month The Mirror told how a wallaby was on the loose after escaping an enclosure and people were warned not to approach it.
Two wallabies arrived into Glenpark Estate in County Tyrone, Belfast, but owner Richard Beattie said one of them became startled and managed to escape.
He said: "One of them jumped over the enclosure and the last time it was seen was a quarter of a mile down the road from the estate. We’re still looking for it now.
“It happened in the middle of our Sunday carvery serving so it was all very busy.
"I got a call from the groundsman to say he was away."
