Posted on 02/26/2009 11:23:53 AM PST by nickcarraway
A “monster pig” broke out of its pen in the middle of the night and blocked traffic near Alsfeld because drivers were too frightened to get out of their cars and move the sow, police in the state of Hesse said on Wednesday.
“Several witnesses called around 10 pm and a patrol car was there fairly quickly,” police spokesperson Elvira Edt told The Local.
Giving new meaning to the phrase “road hog,” callers said they’d seen a “monster pig” that was so big it was blocking the motorway and jamming traffic.
Police officers were able to persuade the 200-kilogramme (440-pound) swine away from the road, but then had to find its owner. After what they called a “painstaking search,” police stood waiting with the sassy sow until the owner came to pick her up.
“She was about 3 kilometres from home and they obviously weren’t going to go tramping through the countryside looking for the pen,” Edt told The Local
And we thought the US had problems with runaway pork...
Pelosi escaped from her pen.
Hussein motorist?
KRAMER Believe me, Jerry, somewhere in this hospital the anguished oink of pigman cries for help. < /seinfeld >
Now this is a real road hog.
Paging Roger Corman!
I will trade them their monster pig for our president and Congress. They frighten me more than large animals.
I just noticed your tagline. LOL.
440 lbs is only a medium sized hog. I have seen many large sows go 800 lbs or more.
So, you are saying, it could have be wurst?
Ach du lieber, I have an idea. Get a helicopter with an Apocalypse Now style sound system, a Pink Floyd album, some helium, and a couple of blow-up pig balloons. Meet me in the Middle East.
Hmmm...mulling on possible solutions.
Recalling the scene in “Patton” when he solved the problem of the farmer’s horse drawn cart that was blocking the column’s advance.
I would comment, but it would just encourage you.
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