She was dragged baaaack to the slaughterhouse.
An evasive sheep escaped a Brooklyn meat factory where she was about to be sacrificed for a Muslim holy day — only to be caught a few blocks away by a good Samaritan who thought he was doing the right thing by returning her to her owner.
The hopeless female sheep made its mad dash from Al-Noor Live Poultry on 21st Street in Sunset Park at around 1:30 p.m. and ran five blocks weaving between cars until she ran into an alley behind Econair Supply Inc. on 3rd Avenue near 25th street, witnesses said.
That is where she was grabbed by a good Samaritan who jumped out of his girlfriend’s car when he saw the animal.
“I thought it would get hit by a car, I jumped out of the car and chased it for five blocks,” said Coke O’Neal, 42. “It was definitely scared, I just grabbed a rope and lassoed it.”
O’Neal held the sheep until a man claiming to be the owner came minutes later.
To his horror, the man grabbed the sheep by its bag leg and dragged it to the car.
The animal was hogtied and taken back to the slaughterhouse, where she was sacrificed for the Muslim holiday Eid Al-Adha, commemorating when the prophet Ibrahim accepted God’s request to sacrifice his son but was provided a sheep to slaughter instead.
“I thought I was saving this sheep from the slaughterhouse but it’s going to end up getting killed anyway,” O’Neal said. “I thought if I can get it back to PETA my son will be proud of me, but they said they couldn’t do anything.”
Mohammed Aldeen, the owner of Al-Noor Live Poultry, said he sent a worker to retrieve the sheep after cops came to his shop and said one escaped.
“We sacrifice a sheep or goat as the prophet Abraham did, it’s an important holiday,” Aldeen said.