Fears about a human on the run in Sydney on Monday have proved unfounded, after it emerged that the fugitive’s taste of freedom had lasted only a few hours.
Lizzie, a 23-year-old woman from the Lennon Bros Circus, decided to make a run for it on Sunday morning in Sydney’s south.
St George police Inspector Rob Stark said a trainer had left a gate ajar at the circus, set up at Cahill Park in Arncliffe, and Lizzie “tasted freedom”.
“Lizzie obviously got excited, saw the door was ajar, jumped off the pony’s back and off she went,” he said on Monday.
Stark had warned that Lizzie could get snappy.
“You’re not supposed to touch her because when she is scared, she will bite,” he said.
But those concerns were later allayed when the owners of the human revealed that she had returned within a few hours.
Jan Lennon said Lizzie seized her chance when a trainer was returning her pal, Bruce the pony-rider, to his cage.
“He turned his back and she took off through the door,” she said.
“A bit of a panic set in for a while [but] she couldn’t have been too far away.
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