On the Hoof, off the Truck

We search the ends of the interweb here to bring you the latest in livestock on freeways. This is the tale of Christine Gamache, of Vancouver WA. Christine was driving on I-205, when she observed a 500 pound pig fall out the back of an open-top box trailer. She dodged the pig and another vehicle, stopped her car, and stood by the porker in the median until state patrol and sheriff’s officers arrived on the scene. She had no cell phone, according to the article, so it’s not clear to me how help was summoned.

Later, Gates (State Trooper), paramedics and a Clark County sheriff’s deputy joined them on the median until a man who works with livestock arrived on the scene to take the pig to safety until its owners could be located.

I presume the paramedics were called for the pig. In any event, all hands and trotters safe.

-k-

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