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SAN JOSE – Apparently no longer content to shelter-in-place, roughly 200 goats busted out of their enclosure and briefly ran loose through a San Jose neighborhood Tuesday evening.
Zach Roelands captured the chaos on camera.
“When I got back from the store all the goats had broken through the fence and were (wreaking) havoc on our street,” Roelands said in a Twitter post that included a video of the goats being rounded up on Trowbridge Way. “This is the craziest thing to happen all quarantine.”
The goats came from an enclosure on a hill in the Silver Creek neighborhood, said Roelands. They are brought in once a year for a few days to clear the hillside brush.
“We had a tractor try to cut all the weeds a few years ago and it hit a rock and set the whole hill on fire,” he said.
The goat jailbreak occurred around 5:30 p.m., Roelands said.
Roelands said the goats were rounded up relatively quickly, but not before they munched on potted plants and other typically off-limits vegetation. They also left a conspicuous trail of droppings.
“Chaos,” Roelands wrote in a separate post that included pictures of the aftermath. “Pure chaos.”
The incursion came as an amusing distraction to other residents including Amit Patel.
“We absolutely loved watching the goats run on Trowbridge Way,” said Patel, who also took pictures and video of the goats. “It was especially a welcome change in the shelter-in-place time.”
Like Roelands, Patel appreciates the role the goats play in reducing the threat of fires.
“We love the goats and look forward to seeing them every year from our backyard,” he said, “and now in our front yard.”
