When you come to a pork in the road...

What is it about runaway farm animals that we find so entertaining? Sure, we pick up the newspaper and read a headline like "Police capture elusive pig" [Morning Sentinel] and think "THIS is news?"

Maybe we scoff a little and shake our heads...but then we start reading it. And we read it all the way through because there's a strange man-versus-beast draw to the tale.

WATERVILLE -- A taste for French fries cost this pig its freedom.

Police then briefly stunned the gray pig with a Taser gun, then captured it with a snare pole, Rumsey said.
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And quotes like, "You can't put them pigs just anywhere because they get away" don't come around every day. Er, maybe up north they do.

But the bestest, greatest, most wonderous facet of such a story exists in the story's online comments. This is where reader wit really shows its stuff. This is where competition begins: Who will come up with the ultimate pig-related pun?

See what readers have come up with so far, or throw in your own crafty commentary.