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Seal Trapped In Pond Busts Out, Flops To Police Station

Seal Trapped In Pond Busts Out, Flops To Police Station

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A seal that got itself trapped in a small pond in Beverly flopped its way to the city's police station in the middle of the night, triggering an overland ride to Connecticut and eventual freedom. The seal – whom locals took to calling "Shoebert," because it lived for a while in Shoe Pond – apparently swam from the Atlantic Ocean into Beverly Harbor and then up the Bass River and through a culvert into the smaller southern portion of Shoe Pond, which is divided.

A seal that got itself trapped in a small pond in Beverly flopped its way to the city's police station in the middle of the night, triggering an overland ride to Connecticut and eventual freedom. The seal – whom locals took to calling "Shoebert," because it lived for a while in Shoe Pond – apparently swam from the Atlantic Ocean into Beverly Harbor and then up the Bass River and through a culvert into the smaller southern portion of Shoe Pond, which is divided.…