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A woman was on a road trip when she was stopped by an unexpected roadside attraction: a herd of wild donkeys.
Lin, who posts to TikTok under the username @infinitebbt, took the trip earlier this year as she drove from California to Nevada, and made some unusual friends on the way.
In a video posted on August 17, Lin described what happened when “your road trip gets interrupted by the most unexpected roadblock.”
It begins with her car’s alert system warning her about several blockages around her car—and then pans to the window, where two donkeys are watching her.
Multiple donkeys crowd around the car, gazing in the window and interacting with each other. At one point, she shows two more donkeys standing right in the middle of the road.
“Wild burros,” she captioned the video. “They just wanted to say hi!”
Burros are a smaller, wild version of a donkey, and can be found in Nevada on a territory tens of thousands of acres wide, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. They are believed to have entered the United States in the 1500s, where, over centuries, domestic stock eventually became wild due to escape and abandonment.
A reply to a comment from Lin under a subsequent video confirms she was driving in Nevada when she encountered the scene.
TikTok users were fascinated by the video, which has more than 5.2 million likes and a whopping 20 million views.
“I love donkeys so much man,” one happy commenter wrote, as another described them as “nosey” and one declared: “They’re so CUTE.”
“I was expecting a buffalo or something, but the donkeys were an interesting surprise,” another laughed, while one joked about the alert at the start of the video: “I love how the screen makes it look like an active attack.”
And as another admitted: “Why did I think there were zombies attacking the car?”
TikTok @infinitebbt
The Bureau of Land Management of Nevada advises never to approach or feed wild burros or wild horses. Feeding them is illegal, and can also cause the animals to become habituated, expecting humans to have food for them, which is a risk for both the animals and humans.
In a comment on her video, Lin said she wondered whether the burros approached the car in search of snacks, “but we knew not to feed them.”
Newsweek has contacted @infinitebbt via TikTok for comment on this story.
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