This is the moment a sacrificial goat that was set to be slaughtered in Turkey lands on a car and survives after jumping off a second-floor balcony in a desperate bid to escape.

The incident took place in front of a phone and electronics store on 142 Street, in the Sevket Sumer neighbourhood, in the Akdeniz district of Mersin Province, Turkey, at around 5:23 pm on 11th November.

The security camera inside the phone and electronics store captured the goat falling onto the roof of the moving car on the street and hitting it with such force that it smashed the rear window and dented the roof of the vehicle.

The sacrificial goat, reportedly uninjured, quickly stood up and ran away after rolling down onto the ground from the roof of the car, reportedly driven by a man identified as Murat Can Pater.

Onlookers can be seen examining the shattered rear windscreen and the dented car roof, observing the height from which the animal fell.

The goat had reportedly fallen from the second floor of the building, where its unnamed owner had been feeding it and flattening it up for ritual slaughter.

At the time of writing it is unknown if the goat’s owner was made to pay for repairs to the car and if the runaway goat was caught.