{"id":193348,"date":"2026-03-16T11:26:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193348\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:26:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:26:37","slug":"video-florida-police-ham-per-escape-of-speedy-pig-after-hilarious-hoof-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193348\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Florida police &#8216;ham-per&#8217; escape of speedy pig after hilarious &#8216;hoof pursuit&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9tqwo0yzt3hz0mjl.jpg\" alt=\"Florida police nab runaway pig\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/video\/fmc-lmklgxyrk7tbk1cs\" data-v-4292be72=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida police nab runaway pig<\/a> <\/p>\n<p data-v-4292be72=\"\">The Hollywood Police Department released bodycam footage showing a &#8220;hoof pursuit&#8221; as an officer ran after a speedy pig last week.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla. &#8211; Police officers in Hollywood, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Florida<\/a>, responded to a &#8220;pork-uliar&#8221; emergency on Tuesday, March 3, when a speedy pig was spotted running around after dark.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The department released bodycam footage of the &#8220;hoof pursuit,&#8221; which shows an officer sprinting after the animal. Fortunately, the officers managed to &#8220;ham-per&#8221; the pig\u2019s escape, eventually cornering the fugitive and escorting him into the back of a patrol car.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">pig<\/a> was checked for a chip and then taken to a local rescue farm, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/100-pound-pot-bellied-pig-found-roaming-downtown-sarasota\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">100-pound pot-bellied pig found roaming in downtown Sarasota: police<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\">This wasn&#8217;t the only pig-related patrol in the Sunshine State. Coincidentally, police in Sarasota, posted just a few days earlier on February 27 that they found a &#8220;friendly and cooperative&#8221; 100-pound pig roaming their city after nightfall and were looking for its owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was collected from Storyful and the Hollywood Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/viral\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Viral<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/pets-animals\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-06e3e0fd=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pets and Animals<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida police nab runaway pig The Hollywood Police Department released bodycam footage showing a &#8220;hoof pursuit&#8221; as an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[47,28,30,29,115,8713,628,8065],"class_list":["post-193348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-pets-animals","tag-us","tag-viral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}