A screenshot from the surveillance video of unwanted visitors at Little Farmers Petting Zoo in Westsyde Centennial Park in Kamloops.
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May 14, 2022 - 11:30 AM
The owner of a petting zoo in Kamloops is out for justice after a group of youth came by his place to cause trouble.
Surveillance footage from the night of May 7 captures a group of teenagers, at least seven at one point, feeding the animals at Little Farmers Zoo and throwing bags into the fenced area full of mostly goats and a few llamas. The edited video was shared to the Little Farmers Facebook page.
In the video, lights get turned on and then sprinklers to spook the unwanted visitors but some stuck around.
At one point they lift a goat over the fence and played with it outside of the enclosed area before lifting it back over.
Shortly after another goat is lifted out of the fenced area, owner Al Threatful can then be see approaching them.
He surveys the damage with his flashlight and talks with the teens who don't try to run away.
The video then cuts to a handheld recording by Threatful in which he approaches three people on the street.
“You guys again, eh?” he says while shining a flashlight on them.
The three people were picked up by a dark Dodge pickup truck, Threatful says in the video, which he records as it drives away, after sharing a close-up of the license plate.
When reached for comment, Threatful said he is hesitant to share more details while he waits to hear back from the RCMP. He reached out to them but said he's yet to hear a response.
He did say that he didn’t recognize any of the unwanted visitors but that names have been coming in since he posted the video.
“There’s going to be more to it,” he said. “We’ll see what happens and go from there.”
The RCMP could not be immediately reached for comment.
This isn't the first time youngsters have been caught on surveillance messing around at Little Farmers. A group of youth spent time volunteering as a way to apologize after they vandalized the petting farm's feed box.
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