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About 200 Goats Escape, Roam the Streets of East San Jose

Even goats are getting tired of quarantine

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Even goats get tired of being quarantined. More than a 100 of them broke through a fence in the Silver Creek area of San Jose and went stampeding past multimillion dollar homes. Marianne Favro spoke to the neighbors and got a look at the aftermath.

Well this is something you don't see every day, much less in quarantine. A tribe of goats went wild Tuesday evening in a neighborhood in east San Jose.

Terry Roelands said the hill behind his home caught on fire about 15 years ago and since then, they use goats a few times a year to clear the brush.

On Tuesday evening, one of the goats was eating flowers over a fence and somehow tapped one of the electric fences, causing it and others to break the boards on the fence, Roelands said. 

"All of a sudden they get onto our driveway and it was very exciting but I was a little bit nervous because the garage was open and I thought they might get into the garage," said neighbor Amit Patel.

RAW: About 200 Goats Escape, Roam the Streets of East San Jose
Well this is something you don't see every day, much less in quarantine. A tribe of goats went wild Tuesday evening in a neighborhood in east San Jose. Video courtesy of Terry Roelands.

This allowed about 200 goats to escape through a backyard and out onto the streets.

"When I got back from the store all the goats had broken through the fence and were wreaking havoc on our street," tweeted Roelands' son Zach.

A rancher got the goats back onto the ranchlands in about five minutes, Roelands said.

"This is the craziest thing to happen all quarantine," Zach tweeted.

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