A pig created havoc and kept the New Jersey Police on tenterhooks for quite some time before being captured.
Who is Albert Einswine and why is he in the news?
According to media reports, Albert Einswine escaped from a New Jersey farm and led cops on a wild chase before they were able to ‘apprehend’ the pesky porker.
It got loose and somehow escaped from a local pig farm in Deptford Township last week Tuesday and evaded arrest as long as it could.
Deptford Township Police Department posted a video online to show officers trying in vain to lasso Albert.
It can be seen in the video that each time the policemen get close, the pig squeals and runs away as an officer filming laughs. The cop tries to tell the animal, ‘We are all friends here.’
Detective Sgt. Bob Jones told WPVI, ‘The video doesn’t show the whole thing. We had to chase the pig for a quarter mile. They’re faster than they look.’
He added, ‘He got pretty far for what it was. I don’t know where he was going to go.’
The police said eventually the owner came by to retrieve the pig.
The police department said, ‘The suspect was identified as Albert Einswine, a 4-year-old pig from the New Sharon section of Deptford Township. Mr Einswine was released on his own recognizance.’
