The flying Geordie appeared 4,300 miles away in Alabama, having apparently taken a transatlantic ride on a ship. Bob was released on the Channel Island of Guernsey three weeks ago as part of a race home to Tyneside that should have lasted 10 hours. Bob, however, did not return home with the rest of the herd. Somewhere over the English Channel, he seemed to get lost and ended up on a ship. “He wouldn’t have flown all the way, I think he probably jumped a ship,” Alan Todd, Bob’s owner, told the BBC. “It was covered in oil – it could have been an oil tanker.”
