WEST BEND, Wis. -- It seemed like a normal day on the farm for Richard Takacs, and then his phone rang.

Takacs is the owner of Meadowbrook Pumpkin Patch and Haunted Cornfields, and he was being alerted by a Wal-Mart employee that one of his emus had been corralled in the store's parking lot, reported WISN-TV in Milwaukee.

"They called me up and said, 'Hey, you missing one of your emus?' and I said, 'No.' Then I went outside and I said, 'Yes,'" Takacs said.

Three of his emus had made a break for it.

"When they described (that) it was really friendly, I knew it was Myron," Takacs said.

Myron is 3 years old, raised from an egg. The travel was quite the adventure for the young bird.

"He was on the other side of the freeway, where Wal-Mart is, two miles on down," Takacs said.

Emus can run about 40 mph. Takacs suspects that a coyote got into the fence and spooked the birds. Two of them wandered over to the pumpkin patch. Myron made it across the freeway into the Wal-Mart parking lot, where he was corralled in the cart return.

Takacs said a store manager was feeding apples to the bird when he arrived.

Myron is drawn to people and shiny things, Takacs said, and Takacs guesses that a parking lot full of shoppers and cars must have been irresistible.

"I don't know, maybe he knows where to shop," Takacs said.