On an interstate highway between Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz., drivers on their morning commute called 911 to report a runaway.
He was miles from home and ambling across the four-lane highway when he was finally caught by police.
State troopers, with the help of a few good Samaritans, stopped traffic and picked up the escapee: Stitch, a giant sulcata tortoise with a sand-colored shell.
The 14-year-old tortoise had broken out of his enclosure and a few layers of fences at the nearby Rooster Cogburn Ostrich Ranch, a roadside animal park open to the public, before making a run for it.
Danna Cogburn, an owner of the ranch, said he had been missing for two to three hours before officers told the owners they had found him on the road.
Persons:
Danna
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State
Locations:
Phoenix, Tucson, Ariz