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 following it, and it kept blowing away, and when I went to grab it over here, it just took off," the other officer said.

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