This pig was wanted for insu-boar-dination.
A Utah cop dove and tackled a runaway pig in a viral video that has the internet snorting.
Police in Grantsville, about 30 miles southwest of Salt Lake City, received several complaints over the past week about three little pigs that were wreaking havoc in a neighborhood after breaking free, Fox 13 reported.
The hog-wild swine were “running around town, getting into people’s yards and going through their gardens, going through their animal paddocks and things like that,” Officer Cory Cooper told the outlet.
Cooper and several other officers responded to a sighting this week and tried to take down the elusive animals — and hilarity ensued.
Video released by the department — which looked like it should have the “Benny Hill” theme playing in the background — shows Cooper chasing down the slippery pig across a front lawn.
It jukes him out several times in the driveway when, in a last ditch effort, Cooper dives and tackles the pig as the camerawoman cackles. He then walks away with the detained suspect squealing in his arms, the clip shows.
Cooper said he’s had experience chasing down pigs in his life and this was no different.
“It’s kind of all hands on deck because, and when you’re dealing with an animal with a mind of its own, you obviously can’t communicate … their instincts are to fight or flight and most of the time they run and they’re pretty fast,” he told Fox 13.
Cooper said he got a few scrapes in the takedown but is otherwise fine.
All of the pigs were caught and will be brought to a rescue, as their owner never came forward, police said.
