The "Reindeer" Escape and Traffic Gridlock

In Gwinnett County, Georgia, a local holiday festival encountered a major infrastructure nightmare when a pair of real reindeer escaped their enclosure. The animals bolted directly onto a heavily congested local highway during the evening rush hour. Because local animal control officers were not equipped with lassoes or tranquilisers meant for arctic wildlife, they had to rely on a rolling police roadblock to slowly herd the animals down the road. The chase caused a massive multi-mile traffic jam, with thousands of suburban commuters stuck in gridlock watching police cruisers slowly tail two galloping reindeer. The animals were eventually cornered in a local supermarket car park after being lured with a bag of carrots by a quick-thinking store manager.