Video shows cops chasing escaped pet pig named Mr. BaconBits

A potbellied pet pig went hog-wild in Louisville, leading police officers and neighbors on a hilarious chase that was caught on a body camera video.

Police said Thursday they received a call about a “daggum pig” — who they dubbed Mr. BaconBits — running around the neighborhood.

“Ok, now we’ve seen it all. Imagine our surprise when we get on scene and that potbelly bad boy is running free as a bird!” cops wrote in a Facebook post along with video of the chase.

The footage, set to a jaunty piano tune straight out of a silent movie-era slapstick comedy, opens with the cops racing to the scene to find a neighbor struggling to keep up the portly yet surprisingly quick-on-his-hoofs porker.

“I don’t know whose pig it is,” the woman tells the officers over the renegade swine’s loud snorts. “I’ve just been trying to keep it from getting hit [by cars].”

The cops immediately got to work trying to apprehend the four-legged fugitive, but Mr. BaconBits resisted arrest, sending his two-legged pursuers comically tumbling to the ground.

“We tried using a hobble as a leash but our new friend wasn’t having it,” police shared. “Neighbors even pitched in to help us with the chase! Everyone fell down, everyone laughed… ahhh, good times.”

The responding officers are heard in the video cracking up while trying to apprehend the very spry swine.

“He’s one of us,” one of them cheekily quips.

“Just a couple of pigs chasing a pig,” another chimes in, seemingly embracing the derogatory slang term for police officers.

It took the colla-boar-ation of six officers and several residents to snare the runaway pig.

“Eventually, the oinker made his way to a backyard where we were able to put a dog pole on him,” police said.

Mr. BaconBit was then loaded into a large dog crate and went wee, wee, wee all the way home – but not before posing for a photo with the six beaming cops.