{"id":272972,"date":"2026-08-27T02:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272972\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T02:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T02:42:11","slug":"pittsburgh-police-pull-plastic-jar-stuck-on-groundhogs-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272972\/","title":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police pull plastic jar stuck on groundhog&#8217;s head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh police pull off &#8216;seamless rescue,&#8217; remove plastic jar stuck on groundhog&#8217;s head<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/853c053a-375d-4f49-afda-568da22e36ea_1727472834.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Caitlyn Scott\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>PITTSBURGH \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A groundhog was found &#8220;in a bit of a tight spot&#8221; after it was seen roaming around Pittsburgh with a plastic jar stuck on its head. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Pittsburgh Public Safety officials said in a post on Facebook that on Tuesday, Animal Care &amp; Control Officers Ray Kranak and Charles Simpson came across the groundhog with the object stuck on its head.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7e532c95-787f-4e44-b3b7-32122790fbf8.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" draggable=\"true\" class=\"css-fphibt\"\/><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/7e532c95-787f-4e44-b3b7-32122790fbf8.jpg\" alt=\"Image no longer available\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"css-hr9vxw\"\/><\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Officials said an officer on the scene was able to pull off a &#8220;seamless rescue,&#8221; sending the groundhog on its merry way. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;Excellent work by our officers for keeping our local wildlife safe, one jar at a time,&#8221; the post said. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Looking for more news in your area | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WTAE\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Subscribe to the WTAE YouTube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh police pull off &#8216;seamless rescue,&#8217; remove plastic jar stuck on groundhog&#8217;s head PITTSBURGH \u2014 A groundhog was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,894,31696,114854,1591,109375,11295,4042,6439,73,75,74,745,6975,114852,4503,114853,10555,420,10254],"class_list":["post-272972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-action-news","tag-allegheny-county","tag-animal-care","tag-control-officers-ray-kranak","tag-facebook","tag-groundhog","tag-head","tag-officer","tag-official","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news","tag-pittsburgh-police","tag-pittsburgh-public-safety","tag-plastic-jar","tag-post","tag-seamless-rescue","tag-top-story","tag-video","tag-wtae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}