A giant inflated pumpkin escaped from the lawn it was decorating and led police in a Cleveland suburb on a chase. Once apprehended, it did not submit easily. "Never seen that before," an officer said.

Call it the great pumpkin pursuit.

Police in Parma Heights, Ohio, in the early witching hours of Wednesday, Oct. 8, found themselves pursuing a giant inflated pumpkin that had begun "rolling through town!" the department said in a Facebook post.

Body camera footage released by the Parma Heights Police Department shows an officer and a good Samaritan bystander detaining the giant inflated gourd after their "struggle with the pumpkin," the apprehending officer is heard saying.

"Where did that come from?" asks the arriving officer whose bodycam footage is used.

"Dude, I was kind of like f

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