Ohio

2,200 Baby Pigs Escape as Truck Flips on Highway

This little piggy went whee, whee, whee, as it fled a flipped truck along with thousands of its brethren.

A whopping 2,200 baby pigs ran amok onto an Ohio highway when a tractor-trailer carrying them flipped over Monday evening, NBC affiliate WDTN reported.

The big rig flipped around on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia around 7 p.m., sending the piglets squealing across the highway southeast of Dayton, officials said.

 
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We checked in with crews and volunteers at the fairgrounds were the pigs are being cooled down and cared for. Sources say the group responsible for the pigs are in route to pick them up, from Cleveland.

Posted by Xenia's Word on the Street on Monday, June 8, 2015

Multiple fire departments, paramedics, police officers and nearby citizens attempted to wrangle the baby pigs and take them to the county fairgrounds, where volunteers and fire crews helped cool off hundreds of pigs.

The company shipping the pigs was sending another rig to pick the piglets up, WDTN reported.

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