Trouble erupted in Palmdale, California, on Friday as a camel escaped its pen and attacked a 72 year-old man trying to capture the animal. According to Los Angeles County sheriffs, shortly after 8:30 A.M. the animal was reportedly chasing cars before anyone intervened with the animal.

            “My dad… tried to catch it and it must have cornered him or something, and it took off after him, bit him in the head and knocked him down and stomped on him,” Skylar Dossenbach told KCBS-TV. “He crawled under something and the camel tried to pull him out from under it.”

            Her father was hospitalized and needed stiches for a gash in his head. His name wasn’t immediately released.

            “A neighbor came out and saw the commotion and got the camel away from him,” Dossenbach told KCBS-TV. “And the camel actually started chasing them, and they had to jump in a car, and the camel was running around after everybody.”

            Dossenbach said she finally ended up capturing the camel. “I just put a halter on him, fed him a treat, and he calmly walked down to my round pen and I corralled him,” she said.

            The camel was seized by animal control officers because the owner did not have a permit to own the animal and because of the injuries. The owner could also be cited for endangering the wellbeing of residents in the area sheriff’s officials said.

            Dossenbach said the camel and other animals, including a buffalo and an ostrich, previously escaped from the owner’s property, which she described as a zoo. “There have been 5 other escapes this year,” she said.

            Dossenbach believes that nobody lives on the property but does see the owner come daily to feed and water the animals.