Sept. 23 (UPI) — Police in Washington engaged in an “old-style farm roundup” when multiple chickens, pigs and piglets fled from their home and tied up traffic on a Kent-area road.
The Kent Police Department said on social media that officers responded to a 911 call about farm animals obstructing traffic and arrived to find several creatures running loose in the roadway.
“The crew began corralling them, but they ran a-fowl when the free range feathered friends kept evading capture,” police wrote. “We thought the pigs might recognize the PD as friendlies and be more cooperative. But perhaps in their collab-boar-ation for a freedom run, they bonked their heads and had hamnesia.”
The animals were eventually rounded up safely and returned to their farm.