Pleased Pig Perp in Patrol Car [VIDEO]

It sounds like a joke, but this pig smiles smugly in the backseat of a cop car after officers in Michigan captured the loose hog. Apparently he escaped his enclosure and became infatuated with a lawn ornament about and eighth of a mile away.

The owners of the pig were told they were not allowed to have the animal in a residential area, but not before the hog made a pig sty of the patrol car's backseat. Thankfully, the owners offered to clean up the mess.

"Thank goodness, or the rookie would have had a realllly bad day," the department joked. "We let Pig off with a warning this time. I think it will be a while before Pig is a road hog and porks in a no-porking zone again! Wink emoticon."

"Just when you think you've seen it all ...," Deputy Chief Mark Coil, a veteran of law enforcement for 25 years. "I've seen pigs at large, dogs at large, monkeys at large, parakeets at large, horses at large. For some odd reason Shelby Township is like Noah's ark."