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A US man called the police when a persistent pig followed him home from the train station.

The North Ridgeville Police Department received a call from a man at 5.26 am on Saturday morning claiming that the pig was following him.

He was walking home from the Amtrak train station in Elyria, Ohio.

Initially officers assumed the man was inebriated when he called them.

Writing on their Facebook page, officers said: “Night shift responded to the obviously drunk guy walking home from the bar at 5.26 in the morning.”

But, when they arrived at the scene they discovered the man was completely sober and that he was being followed by a pig.

“Upon arrival, they found a very sober male walking eastbound on Center Ridge near Maddock Rd. from the actual Amtrak train station in Elyria, not the bar.

“Oh, and he was being followed by a pig,” the Facebook post read.

One of the officers managed to coerce the pig into his police car and brought the animal back to the station where it was secured in one of their dog kennels.

According to the Facebook post, the pig has since been returned to its owner.

Officers said of the bizarre incident: “Is this real life?”

They ended their Facebook post by pre-empting any pig in a police car jokes.

It read: “Also, we will mention the irony of the pig in a police car now so that anyone that thinks they’re funny is actually unoriginal and trying too hard.”