By Simon Baker
Press Association Newsfile
Paramedics used lassoes to round up a truckload of pigs running loose on a motorway today after a road crash caused them to escape.
Amused motorists stuck on the M6 took snapshots of the impromptu “pig rodeo” as the air ambulance crew attempted to haul in the animals.
Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance (WNAA) were asked to help capture the pigs after they escaped on to the southbound carriageway of the motorway near Rugby, Warwickshire.
A WNAA spokeswoman said its crew had already been called to an earlier accident on the northbound carriageway.
As they circled above, a land ambulance crew told them they were no longer needed but they then received a call to the nearby accident involving the pigs.
Pilot Neil Parkinson said: “This was probably our weirdest job ever, running around in the middle of the motorway, desperately trying to capture a truckload of squealing, scared pigs.
“I never thought I’d be part of a pig rodeo. It’s certainly something interesting to add to the CV.”