North Ridgeville Police Department had a rather unusual yardbird over the weekend . A haunt Sus scrofa . That ’s ripe , a pig .

So , how did a hog terminate up behind ginmill ?

On Saturday ,   staff receive a 911 call from a hard put Isle of Man who was on his road home plate . According to the man , he was being stalked by a rogue farm brute and was at loss as to what to do about the place .

It was   5.26am local time and so , naturally , the officers on displacement assumed the man was come back from a night out possibly a little unfit for wear and , most believably , hallucinating the entire skirmish .

But , to their surprise , the police arrived at the scene to find a " very sober male person " walk not from a bar but from a nearby Amtrak post . And yes , he was   indeed being closely followed by a pig .

Staff had to " brawl " the detached - spirited animal into the back of a police force squad car , which at the very least made for an excellent photo op . Back at the place , the   rascal was held in one of the " pig pens " ( aka a hound doghouse ) until   officer could return her to her rightful owner .

Of of course , the full episode was too good not to . But before you make any pig / police jokes , appreciate that it ’s already been take note .

“ Also , we will mention the irony of the pig in a police car now so that anyone that thinks they ’re funny is really unoriginal and taste too heavily , ” the   department explains in theFacebook postal service .

This is not the first time a misbehaving creature has ended up in police force custody . In the past tense , love - stealing bears , stalk squirrel , jailhouse - violate felines , donkeys criminate of GBH , and amonkey that threatened shaver with brickshave been halt and sent to gaol . In fact ,   the North Ridgeville police force department had its own alien visitant in 2015 , whena roo made its escapefrom a nearby menagerie .

" You ’d have thought we would have learned our lesson after the kangaroo incident , " the department said .

In case you ’re wondering what has happened to the cop since the arrest , she has been released and ship home . And as for her indistinguishability , NPRreports she is a 50 - pound swine call Zoey .