Moment cop battles giant runaway Halloween pumpkin and gets buried by it
A police officer came face-to-face with a giant inflatable Halloween pumpkin and momentarily lost the hilarious confrontation.
The cop was dispatched to Wolf Road and Saddler Road in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday ‘for a runaway pumpkin’, according to the Bay Village Police Department.
A nearly three-minute-long dashcam video the police department shared on Facebook shows the officer driving on a drizzling and windy night until he reaches the massive decoration in the middle of a residential road.
The cop stops the vehicle in front of the blow-up jack o’lantern and steps out and walks toward it. As he puts his arms up to stop it, the inflatable rolls completely over him and touches the front bumper of the car.
Shortly after, the cop reemerges from the other side of the road and radios a colleague. He detaches one of the pumpkin’s strings that got stuck on the car bumper.
Another officer arrives at the scene and together, they use the strings attached to the pumpkin to drag it off the road and onto a front lawn.
‘Luckily, no officers (or pumpkins) were harmed during the event,’ wrote the police department in the post titled, ‘Bay Village Officer Attacked by Halloween Display!!’
‘Once backup officers arrived, the pumpkin was returned to the homeowner.’
The decoration that was at least twice as tall as the cops was held down by sand inside of it and had lights flashing inside.
Meteorologists told FOX 8 that wind gusts were 25 to 30mph overnight that day.
The weird incident entertained many Facebook users.
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‘It ate the officer!’ wrote one user. ‘At least those calls are better than most!’
Another user commented: ‘In my best Gene Wilder voice… “It’s alive!”
‘At least it wasn’t a bunch of those awful skeletons!’ remarked another user.
It is not the first instance recently of cops getting involved with Halloween decorations.
In October 2020, a Dallas man put out decorations that were so gory, including ‘blood’ splattered on his front porch, that neighbors called the police.
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