Parma Heights police recover runaway inflatable pumpkin

Police in Parma Heights, Ohio, pursued and captured a runaway inflatable pumpkin Tuesday night after multiple residents reported a large, orange object rolling down neighborhood streets, body camera footage released by the Parma Heights Police Department shows. Officers grappled with the oversized decoration as wind carried it along, ultimately loading it into a patrol car and returning it to its owner.

The footage shows the inflatable pumpkin bouncing and rolling in the roadway, repeatedly eluding officers who tried to grab it. At one point an officer can be heard telling a colleague that he was "following it" but "it kept blowing away." Multiple officers then attempted to deflate the decoration without success and worked together to push the large plastic gourd into the backseat of a police cruiser.

"I've never seen that before," an officer said on the video as the pumpkin was packed tightly into the patrol vehicle. Officers drove the inflatable back to its home, and Sgt. Eric Taylor, a spokesman for the Parma Heights Police Department, said in a statement the decoration is now on display "to be enjoyed by all who pass it throughout the remainder of this fall season."