(WBBM NEWSRADIO) – A Cook County Sheriff's police sergeant made a different sort of rescue on the Jane Addams Tollway Wednesday morning.
Sgt. Bonnie Busching came upon a donkey needing assistance on eastbound I-90, just east of Arlington Heights Road. Her body camera recorded her next moves, as she got out of her vehicle and sought to keep the animal out of harm’s way.
"Come here, sweetie,” she says, trying to coax and calm the animal.
Thankfully, Busching was not hurt. A lot of people looked and some stopped.
"Three IDOT workers show up and they go, 'You really have a donkey.' I go, 'Yep, I have a donkey.'"
Sgt. Busching says the donkey, named Dusty, was reunited with his owner, who had just bought him. The seller had put Dusty in a trailer and apparently did not secure the latch.
"That's a tough little donkey, too, because he was kind of scraped up,” the sergeant said. "But he was walking around and didn't seem upset. He was real friendly."