A police helicopter and over a dozen police cars were pressed into service when 10 buffaloes escaped from a farm and wandered around the streets in an upscale neighborhood in Pukesville, Maryland.
An Associated Press report said the herd of buffaloes got loose from a farm in Stevension, about three miles away on Wednesday, disrupting traffic and alarming homeowners in the neighbourhood. Police officers eventually managed to manoeuvre the beasts onto a tennis court about a mile from where they were spotted.
Police officers used lounge chairs by the side of the tennis court as shields and formed a human chain to corral the wayward buffalo in the court before returning them to the farm later in the day. One buffalo leaped over one of the tennis nets in an effort to evade capture, the agency report said.
Residents reported the incident around 7 am, authorities said. Police shut down several major traffic arteries, including a section of the Baltimore Beltway.
"Somehow they figured it out; I've got to give a lot of credit to the creativity of our officers," the agency quoted police spokesman Shawn Vinson as saying.