The photo of a captured pig appearing to be smiling in the back of a police patrol car in Shelby Township, Michigan, has gone viral--possibly because it had just gone to the bathroom, leaving the seat a mess.

Police are used to holding different types of perpetrators in their patrol cars, but a department  in Shelby Township, Michigan, admits that even they weren’t prepared for a recent encounter. 

They ended up detaining a large, 170-pound pig which had gotten out of its pen and was wandering around the local area Thursday evening. 

A woman even called 911 to report the animal after it briefly chased her before stopping to explore a lawn decoration. 

Police were able to capture it with no problems using a tool to wrangle dogs then took it b