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One officer with the Bay Village Police Department in Ohio certainly did not have “get attacked by a giant inflatable pumpkin” on his to-do list when he woke up on Oct. 14.
That, however, is exactly what happened when the police officer responded to a report of a “runaway pumpkin” blocking traffic near Wolf Road and Saddler Road on that rainy Monday with reported wind gusts of 25 to 30 mile per hour.
Dashcam footage shared to the Bay Village Police Department Facebook page shows the officer pulling up to the scene and walking up to the rogue jack-o-lantern.
As he gets closer to the giant pumpkin, a wind gust pushes the huge inflatable, engulfing him and rolling it over to “attack” his police cruiser. Then, as another police car pulls up, the pumpkin rolls into it as well.
“Luckily, no officers (or pumpkins) were harmed during the event,” the Bay Village Police Department wrote on Facebook. “Once backup officers arrived, the pumpkin was returned to the homeowner.”
“This is going to be tough to move,” the officer can be heard telling dispatch.
Viewers of the video on Facebook, naturally, had a lot of fun with the giant pumpkin “attack.”
“Forget about James [and] the Giant Peach,” one viewer commented.
“It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown!” another person joked.
“I can’t wait for the sequel next Halloween,” someone else commented.
“As funny as this is, it’s also a good reminder to deflate your decorations during a wind/storm,” read another comment. “Thankfully it didn’t get tied up in the power lines or worse!”
“Alas, there is precedence,” another viewer wrote, then attached the following video…
Rover’s appearance on the 1967 British television program The Prisoner predicted it all along.
Thankfully, the Ohio pumpkin, unlike Rover, did not roar, coerce, incapacitate or kill any inhabitants of Bay Village. Whether it too had the ability to subdivide was not reported by police.