Saturday, October 20, 2007

Woman calls 911 to report collision with giraffe

The animal she sideswiped in her car while driving on S.C. Highway 174 near the Dahoo Bridge Thursday morning was a giraffe.

The 911 dispatcher sounded incredulous.

A giraffe? Yes, the woman caller insisted.

"I do know one thing: it was bigger than a horse," she told the operator. "I know what a deer looks like. I know what a horse looks like."

There were two of them in the road, she said. She couldn't avoid hitting one of them. It damaged her passenger-side mirror.

Were they injured? The caller wasn't sure. They ran away.

You can hear the audio clip on this page.

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