17-05-2025
Columbus police save family of geese on I-70
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Columbus traffic saw a different type of honking Friday morning.
A family of geese infiltrated a Columbus highway, but two officers with the Columbus Division of Police (CPD) helped them safely cross the busy interstate. Video footage shows two officers stopping in the middle of Interstate 70 near West Broad Street to help the geese waddle safely.
The video footage of an officer with the CPD officer helping escort a family of geese across the interstate was widely circulated Friday, posted to multiple law enforcement Facebook pages.
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'Just another day on the job for the CPD Goose Patr- we mean Freeway Patrol!' CPD posted.
Although a leaf blower was used to escort the gaggle of geese, CPD clarified no geese were harmed, and officers just used the machine to create noise.
One of the officers was 35-year CPD veteran Don Paden, whose brother — Guernsey County Sheriff Jeffrey Paden — congratulated him on Facebook.
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