‘Pure chaos’ as goats run wild in San Jose neighborhood

Brought in to clear brush from a hill, the animals escaped their enclosure and munched on potted plants

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SAN JOSE – Apparently no longer content to shelter-in-place, roughly 200 goats busted out of their enclosure and briefly ran loose through a San Jose neighborhood Tuesday evening.

Zach Roelands captured the chaos on camera.

“When I got back from the store all the goats had broken through the fence and were (wreaking) havoc on our street,” Roelands said in a Twitter post that included a video of the goats being rounded up. “This is the craziest thing to happen all quarantine.”

The goats came from an enclosure on a nearby hill, said Roelands, adding that they are brought in once a year for a few days to clear the brush.

“We had a tractor try to cut all the weeds a few years ago and it hit a rock and set the whole hill on fire,” he said.

The goat jailbreak occurred about 5:30 p.m., Roelands said.

Roelands said the goats were rounded up relatively quickly, but not before they munched on potted plants and other typically off-limits vegetation. They also left a conspicuous trail of droppings.

“Chaos,” Roelands wrote in a separate post that included pictures of the aftermath. “Pure chaos.”