ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Pigs may not fly, but they certainly can run. That’s what Albuquerque police and animal control officers found out when a pig got loose on I-40 Tuesday morning. The porky fugitive caused I-40 eastbound near Louisiana to shut down.
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“I still can’t believe it, I still can’t believe we saw a wild pig running on the ramp,” said Feliz Lujan, an Albuquerque resident who was driving on the freeway before police arrived. “All of a sudden, we see this little pig running along at first, we thought it was a dog, and I said no, that’s a pig I couldn’t believe it, so I just pulled out my phone and started recording.”
Police got word of the runaway pig around 10:40 am. Several officers arrived to corral it, but it proved to be a shifty beast. Animal welfare arrived shortly after, taking the one-year-old pig to the West Side animal shelter. “For this one to be on I-40, you know, we thought, did it fall out of somebody’s vehicle? Did it fall out of a livestock truck? You know, was it being transported?” said Lieutenant Ramon Candelaria, Albuquerque Animal Welfare…