Comedian and former Daily Show host Jon Stewart saves goats from railway tracks in New York
Comedian Jon Stewart rescued two goats spotted on subway tracks in New York .
Service was disrupted on Monday when the hungry goats wandered onto the N line tracks in Brooklyn.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), which runs the New York Subway were forced to call the police and Animal Control to help remove the goats from the track.
Mr Stewart, a long-standing animal welfare activist, appeared to take part in the rescue mission as he and his wife are supporters of the Farm Sanctuary shelter where the rogue goats were taken in.
Update: Jon Stewart, the 🐐 herder? The former host of the @TheDailyShow, seen on the left, helped get 2 goats to an animal shelter upstate Monday. The goats traveled along the N line tracks in #Brooklyn in the afternoon. It's not clear how they got there. Video: Farm Sanctuary. pic.twitter.com/iUur2H8a6g
— Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) August 21, 2018
According to the MTA, train staff and police managed to move the runaway goats on to a closed track before they were tranquillised and captured at around 1pm local time (5pm UK time).
Jon Weinstein, a spokesman for the MTA, told the BBC that the goats had been munching on grass before they were caught.
Two very baaaaad boys. pic.twitter.com/3fcb9QCxGh
— NYCT Subway (@NYCTSubway) August 20, 2018
A video posted on social media showed Mr Stewart helping to corral one of the cheeky goats into a truck.
At present, it is unclear how the goats came to be on the track, but there are a number of slaughterhouses in the nearby area where animals have escaped from in the past.
The goats have been renamed Billy and Willy by staff at the Farm Sanctuary Shelter.