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May 9, 2024

California pony in unicorn getup captured after 3-hour hunt

Runaway Unicorn

Officer Justin Perry/CHP Madera / AP

In this Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, photo provided by the California Highway Patrol, CHP officer Mark Cosentino with a horse with a fake unicorn horn in rural Madera Ranchos in Madera, Calif., after the horse got away from it’s handler.

MADERA, Calif. — The calls coming into a California Highway Patrol office were alarming: A tiny unicorn was running down a road.

KSEE-TV reports more than three hours later the suspect was taken into custody.

A not-so-mythical white pony named Juliette who wears a fake horn for photo sessions was illuminated by a CHP helicopter Wednesday in an orchard and Madera Ranchos resident Renee Pardy used another horse to lead it out.

The ersatz unicorn's owner, 5-year-old Tatum Boos, says Juliette was given a timeout for being a bad pony.

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