Asheville Twitter users were on the edges of their seats as reporter Jon Elliston tweeted live updates of an escaped llama in Arden.
In case you missed the most interesting thing to happen on social media this week, an escaped llama had dozens (dozens) of Twitter users on the edges of their seats this afternoon.
The llama, which has since been identified as Phantom, showed up at an Arden household, coincidentally at the doorstep of reporter Jon Elliston. The resulting live-tweeted stream of llama shenanigans inspired many puns, many jokes and many “only in Asheville” hashtags.
Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015 will forever be known as the day Twitter cheered for a llama on the lam.
Here’s a play-by-play of the llama drama:
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Current freelance journalist and artist. Former culture/entertainment reporter at the Asheville Citizen-Times and former news reporter at Mountain Xpress. Also a coffee drinker, bad photographer, teller of stupid jokes and maker-upper of words. I can be reached at hayleyebenton [at] gmail.com. Follow me @HayleyTweeet
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APD
QUICK!!! APD! Go give that jaywalking creature a ticket!
QUICK!!! APD! Go give that jaywalking creature a ticket!