In this photo provided by the Jersey City Police Department, Lt. Kelly Chesler pets a goat at Liberty Humane Society, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Jersey City, N.J. Chesler was one of the officers who caught the goat, which went on the loose on the Pulaski Skyway, causing a traffic jam Tuesday morning. Capt. Edgar Martinez said it took 90 minutes for emergency services to corral the goat as it ran along the four-lane bridge between Jersey City and Kearny Point Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jersey City Police Department, Francisco Rodriguez)
In this photo provided by the Jersey City Police Department, Lt. Kelly Chesler pets a goat at Liberty Humane Society, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Jersey City, N.J. Chesler was one of the officers who caught the goat, which went on the loose on the Pulaski Skyway, causing a traffic jam Tuesday morning. Capt. Edgar Martinez said it took 90 minutes for emergency services to corral the goat as it ran along the four-lane bridge between Jersey City and Kearny Point Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jersey City Police Department, Francisco Rodriguez)
The goat which caused a four-car accident and traffic backups on the Pulaski Skyway in Jersey City on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, is brought to the Liberty Humane Society animal shelter by Animal Control Officer John Ross. Traffic was snarledfor almost 2 hours along the elevated roadway as police tried to catch the animal. (AP Photo/The Jersey Journal, Reena Rose Sibayan)
The goat which caused a four-car accident and traffic backups on the Pulaski Skyway in Jersey City, N.J., on Tuesday, May 21, 2013, is petted by Jersey City Police Lt. Kelly Chesler at the Liberty Humane Society animal shelter. Chesler helped catch the goat. (AP Photo/The Jersey Journal, Reena Rose Sibayan)
In this photo provided by the Jersey City Police Department, a goat is petted by Lt. Kelly Chesler at Liberty Humane Society, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, in Jersey City, N.J. Chesler was one of the officers who caught the goat, which went lose on the Pulaski Skyway, causing a traffic jam Tuesday morning. Capt. Edgar Martinez said it took 90 minutes for emergency services to corral the goat as it ran along the four-lane bridge between Jersey City and Kearny Point Tuesday. (AP Photo/Jersey City Police Department, Francisco Rodriguez)
JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) ? A goat believed to have escaped en route to a slaughterhouse snarled the morning commute along one of the busiest roadways in northern New Jersey on Tuesday, leading police on a nearly two-hour chase.
The small, chocolate brown female with curved horns eluded five Jersey City police officers for more than 90 minutes by jumping back and forth over a central divider along the Pulaski Skyway, alternately disrupting traffic along both east and west-bound lanes, according to city spokesman Stan Eason.
Traffic was snarled from 7:10 a.m. until almost 9 a.m. along the elevated roadway, which traverses the Passaic and Hackensack Rivers between Newark and Jersey City and carries thousands of vehicles daily to the Holland Tunnel and into New York.
Four vehicles, whose drivers were attempting to avoid the zigzagging goat, were involved in a minor accident, police said. There were no injuries.
"A call came in: 'There was a motor vehicle accident, and there's a goat running around on the skyway," Eason said, adding that Jersey City police were not alarmed. "We had full-sized bucked deer running around in the metropolis downtown of Exchange Place about two years ago, before it jumped in the Hudson River and swam to Governor's Island, so nothing surprises us," he added.
The frisky goat eventually tired, Eason said, and officers were able to form a semi-circle around her and secure her in a noose.
Officials are still trying to determine where the goat came from. One of the goat's ears is tagged with a U.S. Department of Agriculture tag, indicating the animal likely escaped a truck headed to a slaughterhouse, Eason said. If no company claims the animal, it will be moved to a rural animal welfare facility that can accommodate livestock.
"If it can survive running around the Pulaski Skyway for two hours, and then winds up in a slaughterhouse, it's kind of sad," Eason said. "But if someone claims her, she is private property, so there's not much we can do."
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