Big (Pig) Times In Newburgh

Well, Newburgh, New York hasn't seen this much excitement in just about forever. Which kind of says a lot about Newburgh, New York. But there was much excitement there when a 500 pound pig started wandering the neighborhood. Once animal control officers found the large ham sandwich to go, they had to figure out what to do with it. So they stuck it in a resident's yard.

Town of Newburgh — Debbie Monell was doing her laundry about noon yesterday when she heard a knock on her door.

It was a town animal control officer, asking if the town could keep a pig in her fenced-in backyard for a little while.

It was no longer an ordinary day on Leslie Road.

"This is more excitement than we've had here in a long time," Monell said.

Animal control officers had reports of the runaway (so to speak) black 500-pound female pig on Leslie Road, Frozen Ridge Road and Pampas Lane. They found the pig next door to Monell's.

Once they had Monell's OK, they got the pig corralled with the aid of some Pringle's potato chips, according to Gina Mucci, a town animal control officer.

"She ate my whole can of Pringle's," Mucci said.

Then came the hardest part of all — how and where to transport the pig.

Mucci said an enclosed truck was needed, because the pig would need to be tranquilized if an open truck was used.

Well. That would have been too much excitement for us. But it's a shame they didn't ask us for a place to put the pig. We know exactly what to do with one.