Remember how CHP officers last month valiantly cleared the Bay Bridge for one swiftly escaping Chihuahua named Ponch? Well, they had a similar operation to undertake Sunday morning on I-80 in Berkeley, although this time the creatures in question were moving at more of a waddle than a sprint. As the CHP reported in the Facebook post above, this gang of baby geese, apparently without mom, got onto the freeway at the Ashby exit and proceeded to walk in the left-hand lanes toward Emeryville. CHP vehicles managed to form a barrier around them, get them over to the right-side shoulder, and very slowly escorted them to the Powell Street off-ramp where they could be led back to the water.

As SFGate explains, via Oakland CHP Officer Sean Wilkenfeld, "We ran a traffic break and we stopped the freeway so we can get them corralled to the right hand shoulder — and that's where the world's slowest pursuit took place."

This all happened around 9 a.m. Sunday, but everyone's used to that part of I-80 being perpetually backed up anyway.

Wilkenfeld further encourages all of us to call 911 in any situation in which we see an animal on a roadway, rather than getting out and trying to deal with it yourself. "I know it sounds silly to call 911 for something like that," he says, "but it won't sound silly after it turns into a collision because people were swerving to avoid the animal."

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